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[[Schema L]] <ref>[[French]]: ''[[schéma L]]''</ref>
The various '[[schemata]]' that begin to appear in [[Lacan]]'s work in the 1950s are all attempts to [[formalise]] by means of diagrams certain aspects of [[psychoanalytic theory]].
The [[schemata]] all consist of a number of points connected by a number of vectors.
Each point in a [[schema]] is designated by one of the [[symbol]]s of [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]], while the vectors how the structural relations between these [[symbol]]s.
The [[schemata]] can be seen as [[Lacan]]'s first incursion into the field of [[topology]].
The first [[schema]] to appear in [[Lacan]]'s work is also the [[schema]] which he makes the most use of.
This [[schema]] is designated 'L' because it resembles the upper-case Greek lambda.<ref>{{Ec}} p.53</ref>
Lacan first introduces the [[schema]] in 1955, and it occupies a central place in his work for the next few years.<ref>{{S2}} p.243</ref>
Two years later, [[Lacan]] replaces this version of the [[schema]] with a newer, "simplified form."<ref>{{Ec}} p.548; {{E}} p.193</ref>
Although [[schema L]] allows many possible readings, the main point of the [[schema]] is to demonstrate that the [[symbolic]] relation (between the [[Other]] and the [[subject]]) is always blocked to a certain extent by the [[Imaginary]] axis (between the [[ego]] and the [[specular image]]).
Because it has to pass through the [[imaginary]] "wall of language', the [[discourse]] of the [[Other]] reaches the [[subject]] in an interrupted and inverted form. (see [[communication]])
The [[schema]] thus illustrates the opposition between the [[imaginary]] and the [[symbolic]] which is fundamental to [[Lacan]]'s conception of [[psychoanalysis]].
This is of practical importance in the [[treatment]], since the [[analyst]] must usually intervene in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] rather than in the [[imaginary]].
Thus the [[schema]] also shows the position of the analyst in the [[treatment]]:
If one wants to position the [[analyst]] within this [[schema]] of the [[subject]]'s [[speech]], one can say that he is somewhere in A.
At least he should be.
If he enters into the coupling of the [[resistance]], which is just what he is taught not to do, then he speaks from a' and he will see himself in the [[subject]]. <ref>{{S3}} 161-2</ref>
By positioning different elements in the four empty loci of the [[schema]], [[schema L]] can be used to analyse various sets of relations encountered in [[psychoanalytic treatmen]]t.
For example [[Lacan]] uses it to analyse the relations between [[Dora]] and the other people in her story, <ref>{{S4}} p.142-3</ref> and also to analyse the relations between the various people in the case of the young [[homosexual]] [[Woman]].<ref>{{S4}} p.124-33</ref>.
In addition to providing a map of [[intersubjective]] relations, [[schema L]] also represents [[intrasubjective]] [[structure]].
Thus it illustrates the [[decentering]] of the [[subject]], since the [[subject]] is not to be located only at the point marked S, but over the whole [[schema]].
"He is stretched over the four corners of the [[schema]]."<ref>{{E}} p.194</ref>
In addition to [[schema]] L there are several other [[schemata]] that appear in [[Lacan]]'s work <ref>schema R - see E, 197; [[schema]] I - see E, 212; the two [[schemata]]
of Sade - see Ec, 774 and Ec, 778</ref>.
All of these [[schemata]] are transformations of the basic [[quaternary]] of [[schema]] L, on which they are based.
However, unlike [[schema L]], which serves as a constant point of reference for [[Lacan]] in the period 1954-7, each of these [[schemata]] only appears once in [[Lacan]]'s work.
By the time the last of these [[schemata]] (the [[schemata]] of [[Sade]]) appear, in 1962, the [[schemata]] have already ceased to play an important part in [[Lacan]]'s [[discourse]], although it can be argued that they lay the groundwork for [[Lacan]]'s more rigorous [[topological]] work in the 1970s.
==See Also==
== References ==
<references/>
[[Category:Jacques [[Lacan]]]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:New]]
[[Category:Help]]
The various '[[schemata]]' that begin to appear in [[Lacan]]'s work in the 1950s are all attempts to [[formalise]] by means of diagrams certain aspects of [[psychoanalytic theory]].
The [[schemata]] all consist of a number of points connected by a number of vectors.
Each point in a [[schema]] is designated by one of the [[symbol]]s of [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]], while the vectors how the structural relations between these [[symbol]]s.
The [[schemata]] can be seen as [[Lacan]]'s first incursion into the field of [[topology]].
The first [[schema]] to appear in [[Lacan]]'s work is also the [[schema]] which he makes the most use of.
This [[schema]] is designated 'L' because it resembles the upper-case Greek lambda.<ref>{{Ec}} p.53</ref>
Lacan first introduces the [[schema]] in 1955, and it occupies a central place in his work for the next few years.<ref>{{S2}} p.243</ref>
Two years later, [[Lacan]] replaces this version of the [[schema]] with a newer, "simplified form."<ref>{{Ec}} p.548; {{E}} p.193</ref>
Although [[schema L]] allows many possible readings, the main point of the [[schema]] is to demonstrate that the [[symbolic]] relation (between the [[Other]] and the [[subject]]) is always blocked to a certain extent by the [[Imaginary]] axis (between the [[ego]] and the [[specular image]]).
Because it has to pass through the [[imaginary]] "wall of language', the [[discourse]] of the [[Other]] reaches the [[subject]] in an interrupted and inverted form. (see [[communication]])
The [[schema]] thus illustrates the opposition between the [[imaginary]] and the [[symbolic]] which is fundamental to [[Lacan]]'s conception of [[psychoanalysis]].
This is of practical importance in the [[treatment]], since the [[analyst]] must usually intervene in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] rather than in the [[imaginary]].
Thus the [[schema]] also shows the position of the analyst in the [[treatment]]:
If one wants to position the [[analyst]] within this [[schema]] of the [[subject]]'s [[speech]], one can say that he is somewhere in A.
At least he should be.
If he enters into the coupling of the [[resistance]], which is just what he is taught not to do, then he speaks from a' and he will see himself in the [[subject]]. <ref>{{S3}} 161-2</ref>
By positioning different elements in the four empty loci of the [[schema]], [[schema L]] can be used to analyse various sets of relations encountered in [[psychoanalytic treatmen]]t.
For example [[Lacan]] uses it to analyse the relations between [[Dora]] and the other people in her story, <ref>{{S4}} p.142-3</ref> and also to analyse the relations between the various people in the case of the young [[homosexual]] [[Woman]].<ref>{{S4}} p.124-33</ref>.
In addition to providing a map of [[intersubjective]] relations, [[schema L]] also represents [[intrasubjective]] [[structure]].
Thus it illustrates the [[decentering]] of the [[subject]], since the [[subject]] is not to be located only at the point marked S, but over the whole [[schema]].
"He is stretched over the four corners of the [[schema]]."<ref>{{E}} p.194</ref>
In addition to [[schema]] L there are several other [[schemata]] that appear in [[Lacan]]'s work <ref>schema R - see E, 197; [[schema]] I - see E, 212; the two [[schemata]]
of Sade - see Ec, 774 and Ec, 778</ref>.
All of these [[schemata]] are transformations of the basic [[quaternary]] of [[schema]] L, on which they are based.
However, unlike [[schema L]], which serves as a constant point of reference for [[Lacan]] in the period 1954-7, each of these [[schemata]] only appears once in [[Lacan]]'s work.
By the time the last of these [[schemata]] (the [[schemata]] of [[Sade]]) appear, in 1962, the [[schemata]] have already ceased to play an important part in [[Lacan]]'s [[discourse]], although it can be argued that they lay the groundwork for [[Lacan]]'s more rigorous [[topological]] work in the 1970s.
==See Also==
== References ==
<references/>
[[Category:Jacques [[Lacan]]]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:New]]
[[Category:Help]]
