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===Translation===This term has sometimes been translated into [[English]] as "[[Objet petit a|object (little) a]]", but [[Lacan]] insisted that it should remain untranslated, "thus acquiring, as it were, the status of an algebraic sign."<ref>[[Ecrits|Sheridan, http://forumAlan]]. "Translator's note.zebulon" {{E}} p.frvii-xii</index.php?showuserref> ===Lacanian Algebra===203847 levitra belgique softThe symbol ''<b>a</b>'' (the first letter of the word ''[[other|autre]]'', or "[[other]]") is one of the first [[algebraic]] [[sign]] which appears in [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]], and is first introduced in 1955 in connection with [[schema L]]. It is always lower case and italicized to show that it denotes the [[little other]], in opposition to the capital '<b>A</b>:-' of the [[big Other]]. Unlike the [[big Other]], which represents a radical and irreducible [[big Other|alterity]], the [[little other]] is "the other which isn't another at all, since it is essentially coupled with the ego, in a relationship which is always reflexive, http://wwwinterchangeable.sportal"<ref>{{S2}} p.it321</forumref> In [[schema L]], then, ''a'' and ''a''' designate indiscriminately the [[ego]] and the [[counterpart]]/member[[specular image]], and clearly belong to the [[imaginary order]].php?u ===Object of Desire==785 Acquisto Viagra=In 1957, when [[Lacan]] introduces the [[matheme]] of [[fantasy]] ('''$ <> <i>a</i>'''), ''a'' begins to be conceived as the [[object]] of [[desire]]. This is the [[imaginary]] [[part-object]], an element which is imagined as separable from the rest of the [[body]]. Lacan now begins to distinguish between ''a'', the [[object]] of [[desire]], and the [[specular image]], which he now symbolizes %''i(a)''. ===Agalma===In the seminar of 1960-1, [[Lacan]] articulates the ''[[objet (petit) a|objet petit a]]'' with the term ''[[agalma]]'' (a Greek term meaning glory, an ornament, an offering ot the gods, or a little statue of a god) which he extracts from [[Plato]]'s ''[[Plato|Symposium]]''. Just as the ''[[agalma]]'' is a precious [[object]]hidden inside a relatively worthless box, http:so the ''[[objet (petit) a|objet petit a]]'' is the [[object]] of [[desire]] which we seek in the [[other]].<ref>{{S8}} p. 177</ref> ===Object-Cause of Desire===From 1963 onwards, '''<i>a</wwwi>''' comes increasingly to acquire connotations of the [[real]], although it never loses its [[imaginary]] status; in 1973 [[Lacan]] can still say that it is [[imaginary]].microtec<ref>{{S20}} p.fr77</copycat/forums/memberref> From this point on, ''[[objet (petit) a|a]]'' denotes the [[object]] which can never be attained, which is really the [[cause]] of [[desire]] rather than that towards which [[desire]] tends; this is why [[Lacan]] now calls it the "[[objet (petit) a|object-cause]]" of [[desire]].php?u ===Object of Drive===119 Achetez levitra''[[objet (petit) a|Objet petit a]]'' is any [[object]] which sets [[desire]] in motion, especially the [[partial object]]s which define the [[drive]]s. heoThe [[drive]]s do not seek to attain the ''[[objet (petit) a|objet petit a]]'', http:but rather circle round it.<ref>{{S11}} p. 179<//wwwref> ===Object of Anxiety, Libido===''[[Objet petit a]]'' is both the object of [[anxiety]], and the final irreducible reserve of [[libido]].scienzeinfo<ref>{{S10}} [[Seminar]] of 16 January 1963.it</forum/memberref> ===Position of the Analyst===It plays an increasingly important part in [[Lacan]]'s concept of the [[treatment]], in which the [[analyst]] must situate himself as the [[semblance]] of ''[[objet (petit) a|objet petit a]]'', the [[cause]] of the [[analysand]]'s [[desire]].php?u ===Surplus Enjoyment===1317 generico viagraIn the [[seminar]]s of 1962-3 and of 1964, ''[[Objet (petit) a|objet petit a]]'' is defined as the leftover, the remainder ([[Fr]]. ''[[reste]]''), the remnant left behind by the introduction of the [[symbolic]] in the [[real]]. This is developed further in the [[seminar]] of 1969-70, in which [[Lacan]] elaborates his [[algebra|formulae]] of the [[four discourses]]. cpaqbzIn the [[discourse]] of the [[master]], one [[signifier]] attempts to represent the [[subject]] for all other [[signifier]]s, but inevitably a [[surplus]] is always produced; this [[surplus]] is ''[[Objet (petit) a|objet petit a]]'', a [[surplus]] [[meaning]],and a [[surplus|surplus enjoyment]] ([[Fr]]. ''[[surplus|plus-de-jouir]]''). This concept is inspired by [[Marx]]'s concept of [[surplus value]]; ''[[Objet (petit) a|a]]'' is the excess of ''[[jouissance]]'' which has no "[[use value]]" but persists for the mere sake of [[enjoyment]]. ===Semblance===In 1973, [[Lacan]] links ''[[Objet (petit) a|objet petit a]]'' to the concept of [[semblance]], asserting that ''''[[Objet (petit) a|a]]'''' is a "semblance of being."<ref>{{S20}} p.87</ref> ===Borromean knot===In 1974 he places it at the center of the [[Borromean knot]], at the place where the [[order|three order]]s ([[real]], [[symbolic]] and [[imaginary]]) all intersect. ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Analyst]]* [[Anxiety]]||* [[Borromean knot]]* [[Cause]]||* [[Desire]]* [[Drive]]||* [[Other]]* [[Schema L]]||* [[Specular image]]{{Also}} ==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Real]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:Edit]]{{OK}}__NOTOC__