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=====Example=====
In 1946, for example, [[Lacan]] criticizes [[organicist ]] [[psychiatry]] for ignoring "the significance of [[madness]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 167, 153-4</ref>
=====Later Work=====
=====Symbolic Order=====
In the period 1953-7 the term retains these vague [[associations ]] with the realm of [[meaning]] and [[language]], and is thus located in the [[symbolic order]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 121</ref>
=====Latest Work=====
=====Imaginary Order=====
It is from 1957 on that [[Lacan]]'s use of the term takes on a direct reference to the [[Saussurean]] [[concept]], and shifts from the [[symbolic]] to the [[imaginary]] [[order]].
=====Ferdinand de Saussure=====
=====Relation between Signifier and Signified=====
[[Saussure]] reserves the term "[[signification]]" for the relation between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]]; each sound-[[image ]] is said to "signify" a concept.<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans. Wade Baskin, Glasgow: Collins Fontana. p. 114</ref>
[[Signification]] is, for [[Saussure]], an unbreakable bond; the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] are inseparable as the two sides of a sheet of paper.
[[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|right|thumb|Saussurean algorithm|The Saussurean algorithm]]
[[Lacan]] argues that the [[relationship ]] between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] is far more precarious; he sees the [[bar]] between [[them ]] in the [[Saussurean algorithm]] as representing not a bond but a rupture, a "[[resistance]]" to [[signification]].<ref>{{E}} p. 164</ref>
=====Primacy of the Signifier=====
=====Slippage=====
Secondly, even when [[signified]]s are produced, they constantly [[slip]] and [[slide ]] underneath the [[signifier]]; the only things that detain this movement temporarily, pinning the [[signifier]] to the [[signified]] for a brief [[moment ]] and creating the [[delusion|illusion]] of a [[stable ]] [[meaning]], are the [[points de capiton]].
=====Metaphor and Metonymy=====
[[Signification]] is, in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]], not a stable bond between [[signifier]] and [[signified]], but a [[process ]] -- the process by which the play of [[signifier]]s produces the [[delusion|illusion]] of the [[signified]] via the two tropes of [[metonymy]] and [[metaphor]].
=====Metonymy=====
[[Signification]] is [[metonymic]] because "signification always refers to [[another ]] signification."<ref>{{S3}} p. 33</ref>
In [[other ]] [[words]], [[meaning]] is not found in any one [[signifier]], but in the play between [[signifier]]s along the [[signifying chain]] and is therefore unstable.
<blockquote>"It is in the [[chain ]] of the signifier that the meaning insists, but none of tis elements consists in the signification of which it is at the moment capable."<ref>{{E}} p.153</ref></blockquote>
=====Metaphor=====
=====Lacanian Algebra=====
[[Signification]] is designated by the [[symbol]] ''s'' in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]] (as in the [[notion ]] '''''s''(A)''' which labels one of the main nodes in the [[graph of desire]]).
The notation for the [[signified]] is also ''s'', which suggests that for [[Lacan]] the term "[[signification]]" (the process by which the effect of [[meaning]] is produced) and the term "[[signified]]" (the effect of [[meaning]] itself) tend to overlap.
In the late 1950s, [[Lacan]] establishes an opposition between [[signification]] and [[meaning]] (''[[meaning|sense]]'').
The variety of ways in which these [[terms ]] have been translated into [[English]] provides difficulty for the [[English]] reader of [[Lacan]].
=====Speech=====
Although [[signification]] and [[meaning]] are opposed, they are both related to the production of ''[[jouissance]]''.
[[Lacan]] indicates this by coining two neologisms: ''[[signification|signifiance]]'' (from the words [[signification]] and ''[[jouissance]]'') and ''[[signification|jouis-sense]]'' (from ''[[jouissance]]'' and ''[[sense]]'').
==See Also==
