In Lacan, this intrusion is termed the (hole in the) real. The slippage establishes the difference between appearance and truth-between the enunciating subject and the subject of enunciation-as truth in form of a word tumbles out in spite of the subject’s conscious efforts to hide it. Byomkesh Bakshi (Uttam Kumar) apprehends the criminals on basis of a single word-basha (house)-that sticks out as an outlier in an otherwise innocuous interrogation statement given by one of the many suspects in the case. In Satyajit Ray’s 1967 film Chiriakhana (The Zoo), crime is solved through the detective’s diagnostic apprehension of a linguistic quirk-a slip of tongue.
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