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==Jacques Lacan==
[[Lacan]] began to develop the [[graph of desire]] [[Lacan]] began to , developing the [[graph of desire]] [[Lacan]] , first develops the [[graph of desire]] in his [[seminar]] on [[Seminar V|The Formations of the Unconscious]] (1957-58).
[[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]]. ''Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious. SE VIII. 1905.</ref>
The pre[[linguistic]] mythical [[subject]] of pure [[need]], indicated by the triangle, must pass through the defiles of the [[signifier]] which produces the [[divided]] [[subject]], '''$'''.
====Intermediate Stages====
The intermediate stages of the [[graph of desire]] are not meant to show any [[progress|evolution]] or [[development|temporal development]], since the [[graph of desire|graph]] always exists as a whole; they are simply pedagogical devices used by [[Lacan]] in order to illustrate the [[structure]] of the [[graph of desire|complete graph]].<ref>{{E}} p.315</ref>
