=Lacan=
In the 1950s, Lacan emphasized the role of language and the symbolic order.
Lacan was ''not'' a Strcturalist in any strict sense of the term, however, for two reasons.
First[[Lacan]] drew heavily from the [[structuralism|structuralist approach]], Structuralism sought to dissolve the subject completely and saw subjects as merely the but he was ''not'effect' of symbolic structuresa [[structuralism|structuralist]] for two important reasons.
Lacan, on the other handFirst, while seeking to locate [[structuralism]] viewed the constitution [[subject]] as a mere effect of the subject in relation to the [[symbolic]] [[structure]]s, does not see [[Lacan]] argued that the [[subject as ]] is not simply reducible to an effect of [[language or ]] and the [[symbolic|symbolic order]].
Second, for [[Structuralism]], a [[structure]] is always [[complete]], while for [[Lacan]] the [[structure]] - the [[symbolic order]] - is never [[complete]]. There is always something [[left]] over; an [[excess]] or something that exceeds the [[symbolic]]. What exceeds the [[symbolic]] is the [[subject]] and the [[object]].
Second, for Structuralism, a structure is always complete, while for Lacan the structure - the symbolic order - is never complete.
There is always something left over; an excess or something that exceeds the symbolic.
What exceeds the symbolic is the subject and the object. [[Category:Theory]]
