Uncanny encounters: on writing, anxiety and jouissance

In this paper, I'd like to investigate the relationship between writing as symptom, anxiety and jouissance, or more particularly, between writing as sinthome (a particular form of the symptom as suppliance), anxiety, and two forms of jouissances: phallic jouissance and the jouissance of the Other. I hope to be able to suggest that anxiety is the organizing principle of the jouissance of the writer---for as an affect transmuted into writing, anxiety contributes to creating another sense beyond its signification, which means that a supplementary jouissance invades the scene of writing. Thus, although neither writing nor anxiety are symptoms as such, anxiety organizes the writing process in a way that 'harmonizes with castration' (Lacan, 15-01-1974) hence making it into a particular type of symptom.