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The '''[[unconscious]]''' is the "[[discourse|discourse of the Other]]", or the effect on the [[subject]] of [[speech]] that is addressed to that [[subject]] from elsewhere, by another [[subject]] (who has been [[memory|forgotten]]), by an [[scene|other scene]] or [[scene|psychic locality]].

=====Social Bond=====

He identifies ''four'' types of [[discourse|social bonds]], four articulations of the [[symbolic order|symbolic network]] which regulates [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective relations]].

=====Four Discourses=====

* the [[discourse]] of the '''[[analyst]]'''.

[[Image:Lacan-fourdiscourseletters.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Algebra]]ic [[symbol]]s from the [[Four Discourses]]]]

[[Lacan]] represents each of the [[discourse|four discourses]] by an '''[[matheme|algorithm]]''': each [[matheme|algorithm]] contains ''four'' [[algebraic]] '''[[symbol]]s'''.

=====Four Symbols=====

The [[discourse|four discourses]] are distinguished from one another by the '''[[discourse|positions]]''' of these four '''[[symbol]]s'''.

=====Four Positions=====

There are ''four '' [[discourse|positions]] in the [[matheme|algorithms]] of the [[discourse|four discourses]], each of which is designated by a different name.

=====Four Names=====

The names of the ''four'' [[discourse|positions]] are shown below.<ref>{{S20}} p. 21</ref>

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