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The term "[[chain]]" is used increasingly by [[Lacan]] from the mid-1950s on, always in references to the [[symbolic order]]. At first, in 1956, he speaks not of the [[signifying chain]] but of the ''[[symbolic]]'' [[chain]], by which he denotes a line of descendence into which each [[subject]] is inscribed even before his before birth and after his death, and which influences his destiny [[unconscious|unconsciously]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 468</ref> In the same year he speaks of "the chain of discourse."<ref>{{S3}} p. 261</ref>