Tristram Shandy written by Sterne is "a linguistic fiction" with "sheer exuberance of verbal fancy" as well as "a sexual comedy" where every word tends towards a sexual inference, especially that of a penis. These two prominent aspects of the novel can be combined and explained simultaneously by the Lacanian Phallus which is associated with the symbolic/language as well as authority, law, and (Name of the, Father. Walter, father of Tristram, tries to play the role of the Phallus which/who inscribes a child in the symbolic through his "phallic" plan in connection with naming and nose. Walter, however, fails as the "Name of the Father" because he is a wounded/castrated Phallus. Like Walter all of the Shandy males, however, are impotent or castrated, which leads them to pursue their own hobbyhorses, another form of Phallus, because they want to compensate for their lack of the Phallus or their castration. Their hobbyhorse, however, is also wounded/castrated in that they cannot reflect or represent the real world. In short, the language/Phallus itself is fundamentally wounded/castrated because of the "split between a signifier and a signified," which makes impossible the representation of the real through language. This fact can be also explained in Lacanian castration which we are to undergo in order to enter the symbolic/language/Phallus, because the castration demanded by the symbolic/language is accompanied with loss of "our" something/the Lacanian "real." Consequently the real cannot be represented or contained by the language/Phallus which is in this sense already wounded/castrated because it is the "signifier of the loss" or "lack" as well as the embodiment of the lack itself.