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==Jacques Lacan=====Symbolic Chain===The term "[[signifying chain]] " is compared used increasingly by [[Lacan]] from the mid-1950s on, always in references to "rings the [[symbolic order]]. At first, in 1956, he speaks not of the [[signifying chain]] but of the ''[[symbolic]]'' [[chain]], by which he denotes a necklace that line of descendence into which each [[subject]] is a ring in another necklace made inscribed even before his [[birth]] and after his [[death]], and which influences his destiny [[unconscious|unconsciously]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 468</ref> In the same year he speaks of "the chain of rings[[discourse]]."<ref>{{ES3}} p.153261</ref>
==Meaning=Chain of Signifiers===It is in 1957 that [[Lacan]] introduces the term "[[signifying chain]]" to refer to a series of [[signifiers]] which are linked together.
===Metonymy and Desire===A [[signifying chain]] can never be [[lack|complete]], since it is always possible to add [[another]] [[metonymy|metonymicsignifier]] to it, ''ad infinitum'', in a way which expresses the production eternal [[nature]] of [[meaningdesire]]; for this [[reason]], [[desire]] is [[metonymy|metonymic]].
===Linearity Versus Circularity===[[SignificationLacan]] is not present at any one point in speaks of the [[signifying chain]], but rather in linear [[meaningmetaphor]] 'insists' in the movement from one s and circular [[signifiermetaphor]] to another.<ref>{{E}} ps.153</ref>
==The subject=Linearity===<blockquote>"The [[subject]] linearity that Saussure holds to be constitutive of the chain of discourse applies to the chain of discourse only in the direction in which it is inscribed oriented in a [[signifying chain]] before its [[birth]] and after its [[deathtime]]."<ref>{{EcE}} p.468154</ref></blockquote>
==Miscellaneous=Metonymic Axis of Language===The On the one hand, the [[idea]] of linearity suggests that the [[signifying chain]] is the stream of [[speech]], in which [[signifier]]s are combined in accordance with the laws of grammar -- which [[Saussure]] calls "[law[syntagmatic]]s " relationships, and [[Lacan]], following [[Jakobson]], locates on the [[metonymic]] axis of grammar[[language]].
===Circularity===The [[signifying chain]], in its [[diachronic]] dimension is [[syntagmatic]] and [[metonymic]], compared to "rings of a necklace that is a ring in its [[synchronic]] dimension, it is associative and [[metaphor]]icanother necklace made of rings."<ref>{{E}} p.153</ref>
== See Also=Metaphoric Axis of Language===On the [[other]] hand, the idea of circularity suggests that the [[signifying chain]] is a series of [[signifier]]s linked by [[free association]]s, just one path through the network of [[signifiers]] which constitutes the [[symbolic]] [[world]] of the [[subject]] -- which [[Saussure]] calls "associative" relationships, and [[Lacan]], following [[Jakobson]], locates on the [[metaphoric]] axis of [[language]]. ===Diachronic and Synchronic Dimensions===* In [[truth]], the [[signifying chain]] is both of these things. In its [[diachrony|diachronic]] [[dimension]] it is linear, [[syntagmatic]], [[metonymic]]; in its [[synchrony|synchronic]] dimension it is circular, associative, [[Signifiermetaphoric]]. The two cross over: * <blockquote>"There is in effect no signifying chain [[[diachronic]] chain] that does not have, as if attached to the [[punctuation]] of each of its units, a [[whole]] articulation of relevant contexts [[[Signifiedsynchronic]]units] suspended 'vertically', as it were, from that point."<ref>{{E}} p. 154</ref></blockquote>* [[Lacan]] thus combines in one [[concept]] the two types of [[relationship]] ("[[syntagmatic]]" and "associative") which [[Saussure]] argued existed between [[sign]]s, though for [[Lacan]], the relationship is between [[signifiers]], not [[Symbolsign]]s. ==See Also=={{See}}* [[SymbolismDesire]]* [[LetterLanguage]]||
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