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As [[Roman Jakobson]] showed with his analysis of [[phoneme]]s, all [[linguistic]] phenomena may be entirely characterized in terms of the [[presence]] or [[absence]] of certain distinctive features.
[[Lacan]] sees the game of ''[[fort-da|fort!/da!]]'', which [[FruedFreud]] describes in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]'', as a primitive phonemic opposition representing the child's entry into the [[symbolic order]].
The two sounds made by the child, O/A, are "a pair of sounds modulated on [[presence]] and [[absence]], and these sounds are related "to the [[presence]] and [[absence]] of persons and things."<ref>{{E}} p.65, 109, n.46</ref>
