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[[Jacques Lacan]] is concerned with the general [[structure]] of [[language]] (the [[system]] of [[language]] in general) (''[[langage]]''), (rather than the differences between particular [[language]]s (''[[langue]]s'')).
==Development in Lacan's Thought==
Four broad phases can be discerned in the long process of [[development]] in [[Lacan]]'s thinking on the nature of [[language]].
===ONE===
[[Lacan]] argues that [[language]] is constitutive of the [[psychoanalytic experience]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.82</ref>
[[Language]], understood in terms derived from [[Hegel]] rather than [[linguistic theory]], is a mediating element which permits the [[subject]] to attain recognition from the [[other]].
[[Language]] is first and foremost an appeal to an interlocutor.
[[Language]] is seen as [[structuring]] the [[social]] [[law]]s of [[exchange]], as a [[symbolic]] [[pact]], etc.
In his famous [[Rome Discourse]] [[Lacan]] posits a basic opposition between ''[[parole]]'' and ''[[langage]]''. (see [[speech]])
[[Lacan]] refers to [[Ferdinand de Saussure]] and [[Roman Jakobson]].
[[Lacan]] argues that the [[unconscious]] is, like [[language]], a [[structure]] of [[signifier]]s.
[[Lacan]] asserts that "[[the unconscious is structured like a language]]."<ref>{{S11}} p.20</ref>
[[Lacan]] can formulate the category of the [[symbolic]] with greater precision.
===''Lalangue''===
[[Speech]] is the only tool which the [[analyst]] has.
Any [[analyst]] who does not [[understand ]] the way [[speech]] and [[language]] work does not [[understand ]] [[psychoanalysis]].
==Quotes==
<references/>
# Language: 12, 24-5, 33, 44-5, 71, 83, 118, 119, as system, 38, 40 (35, 37)
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