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"[[Discourse]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[discours]]'')
[[Lacan]] identifies four possible types of social bond, four possible articulations of the [[symbolic order|symbolic network]] which regulates [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective relations]].
These "[[four discourses]]" are the [[discourse|discourse of the master]], the [[discourse|discourse of the university]], the [[discourse|discourse of the hysteric]], and the [[discourse|discourse of the analyst]].
[[Lacan]] represents each of the [[four discourses]] by an algorithm: each algorithm contains the following four [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s:
The [[symbol]]s always remain in the same order, so each [[discourse]] is simply the result of rotating the [[symbol]]s a quarter turn.
The top-left position ("the agent") is the dominant position which defines the [[disocursediscourse]].
In addition to the four [[symbol]]s, each algorithm also contains an arrow going from the agent to the other.
