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The [[discourse|four discourses]] correspond to ''four'' '''[[matheme|algorithms]]''': each [[matheme|algorithm]] contains ''four'' [[algebraic]] '''[[symbol]]s'''.
 
The [[discourse|four discourses]] correspond to ''four'' '''[[matheme|algorithms]]''': 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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There are ''four '' [[discourse|positions]] in each [[discourse]], which stand in a fixed relationship to one another.
 
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There are ''four '' [[discourse|positions]] in the [[algorithms]] of the [[discourse|four discourses]], each of which is designated by a different name.
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[[Image:Lacan-structurefourdiscourses.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The structure of the four discourses]]
 
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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


Four Symbols
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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.


Four Symbols

The four discourses correspond to four algorithms: 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.


Four Positions

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.

There are four positions in the algorithms of the four discourses, each of which is designated by a different name.


Four Names
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The structure of the four discourses

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.

The names of the four positions are shown below.[1]