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==Jacques Lacan==
[[Lacan]] defines the [[sign]] as that which "represents something for someone," in opposition to the [[signifier]], which is "that which represents a subject for another signifier."<ref>{{S11}} p. 207</ref>
=====Semotics=====
By engaging with the concept of the [[sign]], [[Lacan]] sets his work in close relation to the [[science]] of [[semiotics]], which has grown rapidly in the twentieth century.
Two main lines of development can be discerned within [[semiotics]]: the European line associated with [[Ferdinand de Saussure]] (which [[Saussure]] himself baptized with the name of "[[semiology]]"), and the North American line associated with [[Charles S. Peirce]].
===Charles S. Peirce===
