In any case the so-called Dasein , as a definition of the subject, was there in this intermittent or fading spectator. The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning. In Position of the Unconscious 2 Lacan defines an effective priority of the signifier, which plays against the subject and wins the game. Speech, we may say, a word free from the censorship of the ego, is directed to an Other.
Speech seeks a response of the Other.
What constitutes me as subject is my question. Lacan says the Other is where the speaker and the listener go, and in this sense language may evoke rather than inform, as we share the notion of Baltimore without fully perceiving the thoughts that created it. The Other always responds even if its response is heavy traffic or the proverbial silence of an analyst. The Other is not whole. Lacan puts a bar across the Other creating the sign , meaning that the Other has a hole, a lack.