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If the subject, as proposed by Lacan, is the effect of language, then the state of grammar associated with the maternal language is related to the effect of culture on subjectification. The concordance of tenses and moods in a language at a given point in time is appropriate for the temporality in which the subject is (as are the multiple modes of syntactic formulation of past, present, and future). Here, we will focus on the future, and more specifically on the future-in-the past of the “past perfect conditional” which can be found in German as well as French. This tense was defined by Heidegger, followed by Lacan, as the time when the subject is manifested, as in the French non-negative “ ne.”