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Known to be opposed to applied psychoanalysis, does Lacan contradict himself with Joyce whom he approaches as a clinical case, (the synthome)? An implicit, but false theory has since spread on the case that the psychoanalyst makes of the writer: that of discerning the role writing provides as a subjective solution to its author. This, however, is not at all evident. At the beginning of his seminaries Lacan follows in the footsteps of Freud. Then, in 1975, (RSI), he breaks away, revealing the Freudian artifice, before arriving at the Lacanian artifice, the synthome. With Joyce, Lacan elucidates the parasitic dimension of language and thereby the scope of the interior discourse that is not recognised as such. The interior discourse is a narrative artifice, contemporary with the birth of psychoanalysis, illustrated in the work of Beckett. The writer is thus to be considered as a researcher on language, like Lacan who affirms of his teaching: “It is simply just language, absolutely nothing else”.