Like White, Lacan insists on the temporal quality of this transformation—it is a way of defining the difference between “then” and “now,” between the middle of the events and the shape that they are eventually given. To his credit, Lacan seems to recognize that this moment may well be a construction as much as an actual, observable moment, since this transformation is “experienced” as temporal and works to “project” an individual into history. Lacan, in other words, seems to recognize that the story being told uses this transitional moment to organize its narrative time.