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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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| + | [[Image:Lacan-fourdiscourseletters.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Algebra]]ic [[symbol]]s from the [[Four Discourses]]]] | ||
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| + | Each of the [[four discourses]] is represented by an [[matheme|algorithm]], each of which contains four [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s. | ||
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| + | Each of the [[four discourses]] is represented by an [[matheme|algorithm]] of four [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s. | ||
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| + | [[Lacan]] represents each of the [[four discourses]] by an '''[[matheme|algorithm]]''': each [[matheme|algorithm]] contains ''four'' [[algebraic]] '''[[symbol]]s'''. | ||
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| + | The '''[[discourse|positions]]''' of these ''four'' '''[[symbol]]s''' is what distinguishes the [[discourse|four discourses]] from one another. | ||
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| + | What distinguishes the [[discourse|four discourses]] from one another is the '''[[discourse|positions]]''' of these four '''[[symbol]]s'''. | ||
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| + | The [[discourse|four discourses]] are distinguished from one another by the '''[[discourse|positions]]''' of these four '''[[symbol]]s'''. | ||
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| + | Each [[discourse]] has ''four'' [[discourse|positions]], which stand in a fixed relationship to one another. | ||
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| + | There are ''four '' [[discourse|positions]] in each [[discourse]], which stand in a fixed relationship to one another. | ||
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| + | The first position (with which each [[discourse]] starts) is called the [[discourse|agent]]. | ||
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| + | The second position is called the [[discourse|other]]. | ||
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| + | The third position is called the [[discourse|product]]. | ||
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| + | The four position is called the [[discourse|truth]]. | ||
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Revision as of 05:24, 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 types of social bonds, four articulations of the symbolic network which regulates intersubjective relations.
Four Discourses
These "four discourses" are
- the discourse of the master,
- the discourse of the university,
- the discourse of the hysteric, and
- the discourse of the analyst.
Four Symbols
Each of the four discourses is represented by an algorithm, each of which contains four algebraic symbols.
Each of the four discourses is represented by an algorithm of four algebraic symbols.
Lacan represents each of the four discourses by an algorithm: each algorithm contains four algebraic symbols.
The positions of these four symbols is what distinguishes the four discourses from one another.
What distinguishes the four discourses from one another is the positions of these four symbols.
The four discourses are distinguished from one another by the positions of these four symbols.
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Each discourse has four positions, which stand in a fixed relationship to one another.
There are four positions in each discourse, which stand in a fixed relationship to one another.
The first position (with which each discourse starts) is called the agent.
The second position is called the other.
The third position is called the product.
The four position is called the truth.
