When reading Lacan I really have a hard time following his ideas. Lacan uses the Idea of the signifier and the signified. He also talks about the Bar that divides the signifier from the signified and he believes that S over s should really be S/s beside s, because the signified also has power and he gives the example of two bathroom doors which are the same until you see the sign for ladies and for gentleman. He represents the power these signified have when he tell the anecdote of two children in a train station where both see the sign at the

train station and they related to bathroom door signs they say
“”look’ says the brother, “we’re at Ladies”; “Idiot! Replies his sister,

“can’t you see we’re at Gentleman.””(450) So here he shows how the signified has power like the signifier and one should not be over another, but equally.

He later tries to explain it with using bedded chains interlocked with one another. And this reminded me of DNA how proteins become DNA which becomes genes and then they are chromosomes, it is a complex interconnected system where one thing is not more important than the other like the signifier and the signified.