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==Three==
Between 1955 and 1970 [[language]] takes center stage and [[Lacan]] develops his classic thesis that "the unconscious is structured like a language."<ref>{{S11}} p.20</ref>
It is in this period that the names [[Ferdinand de Saussure]] and [[Roman Jakobson]] come to the fore in [[Lacan]]'s work.
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[[Lacan]] takes up [[Saussure]]'s theory that [[language]] is a [[structure]] composed of differential elements, but whereas [[Saussure]] had stated this of ''[[language|langue]]'', [[Lacan]] states it of ''[[language|langage]]''.
''[[language|Langage]]'' becomes, for [[Lacan]], the single paradigm of all [[structures]].
[[Lacan]] then proceeds to criticize the [[Saussure]]an concept of [[language]], arguing that the basic unit of [[language]] is not the [[sign]] but the [[signifier]].
[[Lacan]] then argues that the [[unconscious]] is, like [[language]], a [[structure]] of [[signifiers]], which also allows [[Lacan]] to formulate the category of the [[symbolic]] with greater precision.
In 1969 [[Lacan]] develops a concept of [[discourse]] as a kind of social bond.
==Four==
From 1971 on, the shift from [[linguistics]] to [[mathematics]] as the paradigm of [[science|scientificity]] is accompanied by a tendency to emphasize the poetry and ambiguity of [[language]], as is evident in [[Lacan]]'s increasing interest in the "[[psychotic language]]" of [[James Joyce]].<ref>{{L}}. "Joyce le symptôme." 1975a. In Jacques Aubert (ed.), ''Joyce avec Lacan''. Paris: Navarin, 1987.</ref>
[[Lacan]]'s own style reflects this change as it becomes ever more densely populated with puns and neologisms.
[[Lacan]] coins the term ''[[language|lalangue]]'' (from the definite article ''la'' and the noun ''[[language|langue]]'') to refer to these non-communicative aspects of [[language]] which, by playing on ambiguity and homophony, give rise to a kind of ''[[jouissance]]''.<ref>{{S20}} p.126</ref>
The term "[[language]]" now beocmes opposed to ''[[language|lalangue]]''.
''[[language|Lalangue]]'' is like the primary chaotic substrate of polysemy out of which [[language]] is constructed, almost as if [[language]] is some ordered superstructure sitting on top of this substrate:
<blockquote>"Language is without doubt made of ''lalangue''. It is an elucubration of knowledge (''savoir'') about ''lalangue''.<ref>{{S20}} p.127</ref></blockquote>
==Lacanian Psychoanalysis==
