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==Jacques Lacan=====The Symbolic Order===
The [[symbolic order]] is characterized by a binary opposition between [[absence]] and [[absence|presence]].<ref>{{S4}} p.67-8</ref>
<blockquote>"In [[the symbolic ]] [[order ]] nothing [[exists ]] except upon an assumed foundation of absence. Nothing exists except insofar as it does not [[exist]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref></blockquote>
====The Real====This is a basic [[difference ]] between the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]].
<blockquote>"There is no absence in [[The Real|the real]]. There is only absence if you [[suggest ]] that there may be a presence there where there isn't one."<ref>{{S2}} p.313</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>"Through the word, which is already a presence made of absence, absence itself comes to be named."<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref></blockquote>
[[Lacan]] [[notes ]] that the [[word]] is "a [[absence|presence]] made of [[absence]]" because:
# the [[symbol]] is used in the [[absence]] of the [[thing]] and
# [[signifiers]] only exist insofar as they are opposed to [[other ]] [[signifiers]].<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref>
==Presence==Because of the mutual implication of [[absence]] and [[absence|presence]] in the [[symbolic order]], [[absence]] can be said to have an equally positive [[existence]] in the [[symbolic]] as [[absence|presence]]. This is what allows [[Lacan]] to say that "the nothing" (''le rien'') is in itself an [[object]] (a [[partial object]]).<ref>{{S4}} p.184-5</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Sexual difference]]
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* [[SignfierSignifier]]
* [[Symbol]]
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* [[Real]]
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