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Four broad phases can be discerned ==Lacanian Psychoanalysis=====The Primary Importanccce of Language in Psychoanalytic Treament==It is the long process of [[development]] in emphasis placed by [[Lacan]]'s thinking on the nature of ian [[languagepsychoanalysis]]that is usually regarded as its most distinctive feature.

This is a fundamental error, according to [[Lacan]] argues that [[language]] is constitutive of the [[psychoanalytic experience]].<ref>{{Ec}} p, for three main reasons.82</ref>

:1. Firstly, all [[Languagehuman]], understood in terms derived from [[Hegelcommunication]] rather than is inscribed in a [[linguistic theory]], is a mediating element which permits the [[subjectstructure]] to attain recognition from ; even "body language," is, as the term implies, fundamentally a form of ''[[otherlanguage]]'', with the same structural features.

:2. Secondly, the whole aim of [[Languagepsychoanalytic treatment]] is first and foremost an appeal to an interlocutorarticulate the [[truth]] of one's [[desire]] in [[speech]] rather than in any other medium; the fundamental rule of [[psychoanalysis]] is based on the principle that [[speech]] is the only way to this [[truth]].

==Language and Structure==:3. And thirdly, [[Lacanspeech]]'s discussion of is the only tool which the [[languageanalyst]] contains references to has; therefore, any [[Heideggeriananalyst]] who does not understand the way [[phenomenologyspeech]] and to the [[anthropology]] of [[language]] (work does not understand [[Mausspsychoanalysis]], [[Malinowski]] and [[Levi-Strauss]])itself.<ref>{{E}} p.40</ref>

One consequence of [[LanguageLacan]]'s emphasis on [[language]] is seen as his recommendation that the [[structuringanalyst]] must attend to the formal features of the [[socialanalysand]] 's [[lawspeech]]s of (the [[exchangesignifiers]]), as a and not be sidetracked into an empathic attitude baseed on an [[symbolicimaginary]] understanding of the content (the [[pactsignified]], etc).

One common misconception of [[Lacan]] refers to is that [[Ferdinand de Saussurelanguage]] and is synonymous with the [[Roman Jakobsonsymbolic]] [[order]].

Following [[Sassure]]This is, however, not correct; [[Lacan]] argues that [[language]] is has both a structure composed of differential elements[[symbolic]] and an [[imaginary]] dimension.

[[Language]] becomes for [[Lacan]] <blockquote>"There is something in the single paradigm symbolic function of all [[structure]]human discourse that cannot be eliminated, and that is the role played in it by the imaginary."<ref>{{S2}} p.306</ref></blockquote>

===Lacan and Language===The symbolic dimension of [[Lacanlanguage]] proceeds to critcize is that of the [[Saussuresignifier]]an concept of and [[languagespeech|true speech]].

The [[Lacanimaginary]] argues that the basic unit dimension of [[language]] is not that of the [[signsignified]] but the , [[signification]], and [[signifierspeech|empty speech]].

[[LacanSchema L]] argues that the [[unconscious]] is, like represents these two dimensions of [[language]], a [[structure]] by means of [[signifier]]stwo axes which intersect.

The axis A-S is [[Lacanlanguage]] asserts that "in its symbolic dimension, the [[discourse]] of the [[Other]], the [[unconscious is structured like a language]]."<ref>{{S11}} p.20</ref>

The [[Lacanimaginary]] can formulate axis ''a'''-''a'' is [[language]] in its [[imaginary]] dimension, the wall of [[language]] which interrupts, distorts and inverts the category [[discourse]] of the [[symbolicOTher]] with greater precision.

In 1969 [[Lacan]] develops a concept of [[discourse]] as a kind of [[social bond]]. ===''Lalangue''===[[Lacan]] coins the term ''[[lalangue]]'' to refer to non-communicative aspects of [[language]] whichs words, by playing on ambiguity and homophony, give rise to a kind of''[[jouissance]]''.<ref>{{S20}} p.126</ref> All [[human]] [[communication]] is inscribed in a [[linguistic]] [[structure]]. The whole [[aim]] of [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is to articulate the [[truth]] of one's [[desire]] in [[speech]] rather than in any other medium. The [[fundamental rule]] of [[psychoanalysis]] is based on the principle that [[speech]] is the only way to this [[truth]]. [[Speech]] is the only tool which the [[analyst]] has. Any [[analyst]] who does not [[understand]] the way [[speech]] and [[language]] work does not [[understand]] [[psychoanalysis]]. ==Quotes==<blockquote>Properly speaking this is a redundancy because "[[structured]]" and "as a [[language]]" for me mean exactly the same thing. [[Structure]]d means my [[speech]], my [[:category:terms|lexicon]], etc., which is exactly the same as a [[language]]. And that is not all. Which [[language]]? Rather than myself it was my pupils that took a great deal of trouble to give that question a different [[meaning]], and to search for the formula of a reduced [[language]]. What are the minimum conditions, they ask themselves, necessary to constitute a [[language]]? Perhaps only four <i>signantes</i>, four [[signify]]ing elements are enough. It is a curious exercise which is based on a complete error, as I hope to show you on the board in a moment. There were also some [[philosophers]], not many really but some, of those present at my [[seminar]] in Paris who have found since then that it was not a question of an &quot;under&quot; [[language]] or of &quot;another&quot; [[language]], not [[myth]] for instance or [[phoneme]]s, but [[language]]. It is extraordinary the pains that all took to change the place of the question. [[Myth]]s, for instance, do not take place in our consideration precisely because those are also [[structure]]d as a [[language]], and when I say &quot;as a [[language]]&quot; it is not as some special sort of [[language]], for example, [[mathematical]] [[language]], [[semiotical]] [[language]], or [[cinematographical]] [[language]]. [[Language]] is [[language]] and much there is only one sort of [[languag]]e: [[concrete]] [[language]]&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp; [[English]] or [[French]] for instance&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;that people talk. The first thing to start in this context is that there is no [[meta-language]]. For it is necessary that all so called [[meta-language]]s be presented to you with [[language]]. You cannot teach a course found in [[mathematic]]s using only [[[letter]]s on the board. It is always necessary Other as to speak an ordinary [[language]] that is understooddrastically prevent us from understanding him. <ref>Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever{{S2}} p.244</ref></blockquote> ==See Also==* [[Structure]]* [[Linguistics]]* [[Sign]]* [[Signifier]]* [[Signified]]* [[Letter]]* [[Word]] ==References==<references/># Language: 12, 24-5, 33, 44-5, 71, 83, 118, 119, as system, 38, 40 (35, 37) [[Category:Terms]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Language]]