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[[semblance]] ([[French]]: ''[[semblant]]'')
==False Appearance==
Running throughout [[Lacan]]'s work is the idea that appearances are deceptive, an idea that is closely connected to the classical philosophical opposition between [[appearance]] and [[essence]].<ref>{{S11}} p.103ff</ref>
The very distinction between the [[imaginary]] and the [[symbolic]] implies this opposition between [[appearance]] and [[essence]].
The [[imaginary]] is the realm of observable phenomena which act as. bres, while the [[symbolic]] is the realm of underlying [[structure]]s which cannot be observed but which must be deduced.
==Science==
This opposition informs all scientific enquiry, a basic presupposition of which is that the [[scientist]] must attempt to penetrate through [[false]] [[appearance]] into the hidden [[reality]].
Similatrly, in [[psychoanalysis]], as in [[science]], "only he who escapes from false appearances can achieve truth."<ref>{{S7}} p.310</ref>
However, [[false]] [[appearance]] in [[psychoanalysis]] is different from [[false]] [[appearance]] in the [[natural]] [[sciences]].
For the [[natural]] [[scientist]], the [[false]] [[appearance]] lacks the dimension of deliberate [[deception]], which is why [[Lacan]] states that the axiom of [[natural science]] is the [[belief]] in an honest, non-deceitful [[God]].<ref>{{S3}} p.64</ref>
However, in the conjectural [[science]]s, and in [[psychoanalysis]], there is always the problem that the [[falsity]] of the [[appearance]] may be due to [[deception]].
==Jacques Lacan==
[[Lacan]] uses two terms to refer to [[false]] [[appearance]]s.
The term ''apparence'' is that used in [[philosophical]] discussions of the distinction between [[essence]] and [[appearance]].
The term ''semblant'' is less technical, but acquires a growing importance in [[Lacan]]'s work over the years.
It appears as early as 1957,<ref>e.g. {{Ec}} p.435; {{S4}} p.207</ref> and is used several times in the [[seminar]] of 1964,<ref>{{S11}} p.107</ref> but it is not until the early 1970s that the term comes to occupy an important place in [[Lacan]]'s [[theoretical]] [[vocabulary]].
==Other meanings==
At first [[Lacan]] uses the term to refer to such issues as [[feminine]] [[sexuality]], which is characterised by a dimension of [[masquerade]].
Later on, [[Lacan]] uses the term to characterise general features of the [[symbolic]] order and its relations to the [[imaginary]] and the [[real]].
==Truth and Appearance==
Thus [[Lacan]] devotes his 1970-1 [[seminar]] to "a discourse that would not be semblance," in which he argues that [[truth]] is not simply the opposite of [[appearance]], but is in fact continuous with it; [[truth]] and [[appearance]] are like the two sides of a [[moebius strip]], which are in fact only one side.
==Love and Jouissance==
In the [[seminar]] of 1972-3, [[Encore]], [[Lacan]] goes on to state that ''[[objet petit a]]'' is a "semblance of being,"<ref>{{S20}} p.84</ref> that [[love]] is addressed to a [[semblance]],<ref>{{S20}} p.85</ref> and that ''[[jouissance]]'' is only evoked or elaborated on the basis of a [[semblance]].<ref>{{S20}} p.85</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Appearance]]
* [[Reality]]
* [[Falsity]]
* [[Truth]]
* [[Science]]
* [[Reality]]
* [[Deception]]
* [[Moebius Strip]]
* ''[[Jouissance]]''
== References ==
<references/>
[[Category:Imaginary]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
==False Appearance==
Running throughout [[Lacan]]'s work is the idea that appearances are deceptive, an idea that is closely connected to the classical philosophical opposition between [[appearance]] and [[essence]].<ref>{{S11}} p.103ff</ref>
The very distinction between the [[imaginary]] and the [[symbolic]] implies this opposition between [[appearance]] and [[essence]].
The [[imaginary]] is the realm of observable phenomena which act as. bres, while the [[symbolic]] is the realm of underlying [[structure]]s which cannot be observed but which must be deduced.
==Science==
This opposition informs all scientific enquiry, a basic presupposition of which is that the [[scientist]] must attempt to penetrate through [[false]] [[appearance]] into the hidden [[reality]].
Similatrly, in [[psychoanalysis]], as in [[science]], "only he who escapes from false appearances can achieve truth."<ref>{{S7}} p.310</ref>
However, [[false]] [[appearance]] in [[psychoanalysis]] is different from [[false]] [[appearance]] in the [[natural]] [[sciences]].
For the [[natural]] [[scientist]], the [[false]] [[appearance]] lacks the dimension of deliberate [[deception]], which is why [[Lacan]] states that the axiom of [[natural science]] is the [[belief]] in an honest, non-deceitful [[God]].<ref>{{S3}} p.64</ref>
However, in the conjectural [[science]]s, and in [[psychoanalysis]], there is always the problem that the [[falsity]] of the [[appearance]] may be due to [[deception]].
==Jacques Lacan==
[[Lacan]] uses two terms to refer to [[false]] [[appearance]]s.
The term ''apparence'' is that used in [[philosophical]] discussions of the distinction between [[essence]] and [[appearance]].
The term ''semblant'' is less technical, but acquires a growing importance in [[Lacan]]'s work over the years.
It appears as early as 1957,<ref>e.g. {{Ec}} p.435; {{S4}} p.207</ref> and is used several times in the [[seminar]] of 1964,<ref>{{S11}} p.107</ref> but it is not until the early 1970s that the term comes to occupy an important place in [[Lacan]]'s [[theoretical]] [[vocabulary]].
==Other meanings==
At first [[Lacan]] uses the term to refer to such issues as [[feminine]] [[sexuality]], which is characterised by a dimension of [[masquerade]].
Later on, [[Lacan]] uses the term to characterise general features of the [[symbolic]] order and its relations to the [[imaginary]] and the [[real]].
==Truth and Appearance==
Thus [[Lacan]] devotes his 1970-1 [[seminar]] to "a discourse that would not be semblance," in which he argues that [[truth]] is not simply the opposite of [[appearance]], but is in fact continuous with it; [[truth]] and [[appearance]] are like the two sides of a [[moebius strip]], which are in fact only one side.
==Love and Jouissance==
In the [[seminar]] of 1972-3, [[Encore]], [[Lacan]] goes on to state that ''[[objet petit a]]'' is a "semblance of being,"<ref>{{S20}} p.84</ref> that [[love]] is addressed to a [[semblance]],<ref>{{S20}} p.85</ref> and that ''[[jouissance]]'' is only evoked or elaborated on the basis of a [[semblance]].<ref>{{S20}} p.85</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Appearance]]
* [[Reality]]
* [[Falsity]]
* [[Truth]]
* [[Science]]
* [[Reality]]
* [[Deception]]
* [[Moebius Strip]]
* ''[[Jouissance]]''
== References ==
<references/>
[[Category:Imaginary]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
