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=====Linguistic Definition=====
=====Roman Jakobson=====
However, [[Lacan]]'s use of the term owes little to this definition apart from the notion of contiguity, since it is inspired by the work of [[Roman Jakobson]], who established an opposition between [[metonymy]] and [[metaphor]].<ref>[[Roman Jakobson|Jakobson, Roman]]. (1956) "Two aspects of language and two types of aphasic disturbances," ''Selected Writings'', vol. II, ''Word and Language'', The Hague: Mouton, 1971[1956]., p. 21.</ref>
=====Metonymic Axis of Language=====
[[Desire]] is also characterized by exactly the same never-ending process of continual [[deferred action|deferral]]; since [[desire]] is always "desire for something else,"<ref>{{E}} p.167</ref> as soon as the [[object]] of [[desire]] is attained, it is no longer desirable, and the [[subject]]'s [[desire]] fixes on another [[object]].
Thus [[Lacan]] writes that "desire ''is'' a metonymy."<ref>{{E}} p.175</ref>
=====Metonymy and Displacement=====
However, he differs from [[Jakobson]] over the precise nature of this link.
Just as [[displacement]] is logically prior to [[condensation]], so [[metonymy]] is the condition for [[metaphor]], because "the coordination of signifiers has to be possible before transferences of the signified are able to take place."<ref>{{S3}} p.229</ref>
== See Also =={{See}}* [[Bar]]
* [[Desire]]
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* [[Displacement]]
* [[Language]]
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* [[Metaphor]]
* [[Signification]]
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* [[Signifier]]
* [[Signifying chain]]
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