fantouche
n.— «“Fantouche,” a marionette, a shadow of the virile object (or its “natural referent”) is what, in Lacan’s interpretation, Herr K. rightly becomes for Dora.» —“The Scene of Psychoanalysis: The Unanswered Questions of Dora” by Suzanne Gearhart Diacritics Spring, 1979. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
Cat hair may be something you brush off, but cat hair is also a slang term that means “money.” In the same way, cat beer isn’t alcoholic — some people use cat beer as a joking term for “milk.” And imagine walking on a...