CONTENTS 16 Figure and Substitution 207 17 The Problem of the Word 212 Figure/trope 213 The rhetorical and the iconic 217 The isolating 'nature ofthe word 222 18 Force and meaning 229 19 Condensation 235 Condensation in the language system 236 Short-circuit, short circuit 240 Condensation-metonymy 242 20 From the Dream-work'to the Primary Process 245 21'Censorship: Barrier or Deviation? 253 Uncensored marks of censorship 254 Getting past or not getting past: the gap between the conscious and the unconscious 256 Primary/secondary refraction 260 Confict, compromise, degrees 263 22 Displacement 266 Meaning as transit, meaning as encounter 267 Displacement-metaphor 270 23 Crossings and Interweavings in Film: the Lap-dissolve as an Example of a figuration 274 24 Condensations and Displacements of the Signifier 281 On the notion of the operation of the signifier 282 Condensation/metaphor, displacement/metonymy overspill 286 The spilling over of the image 28 25 Paradigm/ Syntagm in the Text of the Cure 293 Notes and References to Part Iv 298 ndex 315