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The "[[graph of desire]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[graphe du désir]]'') is a [[topology|topographical representation]] -- schema or model -- of the [[structure]] of [[desire]].
==Jacques Lacan==
[[Lacan]] began to develop the [[graph of desire]]
[[Lacan]] began to developing the [[graph of desire]]
[[Lacan]] first develops the [[graph of desire]]
in his [[seminar]] on [[Seminar V|The Formations of the Unconscious]] (1957-58).
[[Lacan]] first develops the [[graph of desire]] in [[Seminar V|the seminar of 1957-8]] in order to illustrate the [[psychoanalytic theory]] of [[joke]]s.<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. ''Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious. SE VIII. 1905.</ref>
The [[graph of desire|graph]] appears in various forms, although the most well known form of it appears in "[[The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]."<ref>[[Lacan, Jacques]]. "Subversion du sujet et dialectique du désir dans l'inconscient freudien." ''[[Écrits]]''. Paris: Seuil, 1966. p.793-827. "[[The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]." [[Ecrits: A Selection]]. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Tavistock. 1977. p.292-325</ref>
It -- the [[graph of desire]] -- achieved its definitive form in this paper.
===Four Stages===
In this paper, [[Lacan]] builds up the [[graph of desire]] in four stages.
Its four successive stages represent the constitution of the [[human]] [[subject]] and his [[desire]].
====Elementary Cell====
The pre[[linguistic]] mythical [[subject]] of pure [[need]], indicated by the triangle, must pass through the defiles of the [[signifier]] which produces the [[divided]] [[subject]], '''$'''.
=====Point de Capiton=====
====Intermediate Stages====
The intermediate stages of the [[graph of desire]] are not meant to show any [[progress|evolution]] or [[development|temporal development]], since the [[graph of desire|graph]] always exists as a whole; they are simply pedagogical devices used by [[Lacan]] in order to illustrate the [[structure]] of the [[graph of desire|complete graph]].<ref>{{E}} p.315</ref>
Nevertheless, [[Lacan]] never intended to describe the genetic stages of a [[biological]] [[development]].
Rather, it represents the "logical moments" of the birth of a speaking subject.
====Complete Graph====
==References==
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* [[Lacan, Jacques]]. (2004). [[The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the freudian unconcsious]]. In [[Écrits: A selection]]. (Bruce Fink, Trans.). New York: W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1960)
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