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The ''four'' [[symbol]]s correspond to ''four'' different [[discourse|positions]] in each [[matheme|algorithm]] of the [[discourse|four discourses]].
  
The [[discourse|algorithms]] of the [[discourse|four discourses]] contain ''four'' [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s in ''four'' different [[discourse|positions]].
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Each [[matheme|algorithm]] has ''four'' [[discourse|positions]], with which the ''four'' [[symbol]]s correspond.
  
The '''[[discourse|positions]]''' of the ''four'' '''[[symbol]]s''' in each [[discourse|algorithm]] is what distinguishes the [[discourse|four discourses]] from one another.
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There are ''four'' [[discourse|positions]] in each [[matheme|algorithm]], with which the ''four'' [[symbol]]s correspond.
  
What distinguishes the [[discourse|four discourses]] from one another is the '''[[discourse|positions]]''' of the four '''[[symbol]]s''' in each [[discourse|algorithm]] .
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In each [[matheme|algorithm]], there are ''four'' [[discourse|positions]] with which the ''four'' [[symbol]]s correspond.
 
 
The [[discourse|four discourses]] are distinguished from one another by the '''[[discourse|positions]]''' of these four '''[[symbol]]s''' in each [[discourse|algorithm]] .  
 
  
 
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Revision as of 05:52, 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", 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 Algorithms
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Each of the four discourses is represented by an algorithm which contains four algebraic symbols.

The names of these four symbols are shown to the right.

Four Symbols

The four symbols correspond to four different positions in each algorithm of the four discourses.

Each algorithm has four positions, with which the four symbols correspond.

There are four positions in each algorithm, with which the four symbols correspond.

In each algorithm, there are four positions with which the four symbols correspond.

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]