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The '''[[unconscious]]''' is the "[[discourse|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 [[memory|forgotten]]), by an [[scene|other scene]] or [[scene|psychic locality]].
 
The '''[[unconscious]]''' is the "[[discourse|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 [[memory|forgotten]]), by an [[scene|other scene]] or [[scene|psychic locality]].
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He identifies four possible types of [[discourse|social bond]], four possible articulations of the [[symbolic order|symbolic network]] which regulates [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective relations]]
 
He identifies four possible types of [[discourse|social bond]], four possible articulations of the [[symbolic order|symbolic network]] which regulates [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective relations]]
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[[Lacan]] identifies "[[discourse|four discourses]]" as four different types of [[discourse|social bond]], four articulations of the [[symbolic order|symbolic network]] which regulates [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective relations]].
  
 
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* the [[discourse]] of the '''[[hysteric]]''', and
 
* the [[discourse]] of the '''[[hysteric]]''', and
 
* the [[discourse]] of the '''[[analyst]]'''.
 
* the [[discourse]] of the '''[[analyst]]'''.
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Revision as of 05:12, 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

Lacan identifies "four discourses" as four different types of social bond, four articulations of the symbolic network which regulates intersubjective relations.

Four Discourses

These "four discourses" are

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