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==History==
The [[graph of desire]] is a schema, or model, that [[Jacques Lacan]] began developing in his [[seminar]] on [[Seminar V|The Formations of the Unconscious]] ([[.<ref>{{YLB}}[[Seminar V|1957The Formations of the Unconscious]]-. [[{{Y}}|581957]]).<ref>-[[{{LBY}} [[Seminar V|The Formations of the Unconscious58]].</ref>
[[Lacan]] first develops the [[graph of desire]] in [[Seminar V|the seminar of 1957-8]] in order to illustrate the [[psychoanalytic theory]] of [[joke]]s.<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious]]," 1905. [[SE]] VIII.</ref>