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:([[Fr]]. ''[[bar|barre]]'')
==Jacques Lacan==
The [[bar]] is used to strike through the '''S''' to produce, [[Image:StrikeS.gif]], the "[[bar|barred subject']]."
The [[bar]] here represents the [[division]] of the [[subject]] by [[language]], the [[split]].
Thus whereas before 1957 '''S''' designates the [[subject]] (e.g. in [[schema L]]), from 1957 on '''S''' designates the [[signifier]] and [[Image:StrikeS.gif]] designates the ([[divided]]) [[subject]].
The [[bar]]red [[Other]] is the [[Other]] insofar as it is [[castration|castrated]], [[lack|incomplete]], marked by a [[lack]], as opposed to the complete, consistent, uncastrated [[Other]], an un-barred '''A''', which does not [[existence|exist]].
=====Woman Does Not Exist=====In 1973 the [[bar]] is used to strike through the definite article ''la'' whenever it precedes the noun ''[[woman|femme]]'' ('"[[woman']]"), as in [[Lacan]]'s famous phrase ''[[woman|la femme n'existe pas]]'' ('"[[woman|woman does not exist']]").
The definite article in [[French]] indicates universality, and by crossing it out [[Lacan]] illustrates his thesis that [[femininity]] is resistant to all forms of generalisation.<ref>{{S20}} p.68</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Algebra]]
* [[Other]]
* [[Sign]]
* [[Signification]]
* [[Signified]]
* [[Signifier]]
* [[SignifiedSplit]]
* [[Subject]]
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