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These "[[discourse|four discourses]]" are
 
These "[[discourse|four discourses]]" are
  
* '''the [[discourse]] of the [[master]]''',
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* the [[discourse]] of the '''[[master]]''',
* '''the [[discourse]] of the [[university]]''',
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* the [[discourse]] of the '''[[university]]''',
* '''the [[discourse]] of the [[hysteric]]''', and
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* the [[discourse]] of the '''[[hysteric]]''', and
* '''the [[discourse]] of the [[analyst]]'''.
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* the [[discourse]] of the '''[[analyst]]'''.
 
 
* the [[discourse]] of the [[master]],
 
* the [[discourse]] of the [[university]],
 
* the [[discourse]] of the [[hysteric]], and
 
* the [[discourse]] of the [[analyst]].
 
 
 
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 05:02, 5 September 2006

French: discours


Discourse of the Other

The term "discourse" is used by Lacan to emphasize the transindividual nature of language, the fact that speech always implies another subject, an interlocutor.

The unconscious is the "discourse of the Other", or the effect on the subject of speech that is addressed to that subject from elsewhere, by another subject (who has been forgotten), by an other scene or psychic locality.

Social Bond

In 1969, Lacan begins to use the term "discourse" to denote "a social bond, founded in language."

He identifies four possible types of social bond, four possible articulations of the symbolic network which regulates intersubjective relations

Four Discourses

These "four discourses" are

See Also

References