Bornali Nath Dowerah Guest Lecturer, Dept. of English, DHSK College, Dibrugarh. Abstract The concept of metonymic displacement is not new which Jacques Lacan has introduced in his essay “Insistence of Letter in the Unconscious” (Lacan 1966). It has originated much before when Saussure asserted the paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations in language. A similar line of…