News free{{Top}}[[signe]]{{Bottom}} ===Ferdinand de Saussure===[[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|thumb|200px|right|The Saussurean Sign]]According to [[Saussure]], httpthe [[sign]] is the basic unit of [[language]] The [[sign]] is constituted by two elements://andrea# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-bocelli-free-rin[[image]]). The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond.hi5 =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.com andrea bocelli free ringtones, <ref>:-O[[Saussure|Saussure, http://us-marine-free-ringtoneFerdinand de]].hi5(1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed.com us marine free ringtonesCharles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, rkvqtrans. Wade Baskin, httpGlasgow://download-free-nokia-rinCollins Fontana.hi5p.com download free Nokia ringtones114</ref> In this diagram, 034998the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, http://samsung-free-ringtonesthe reciprocal implication of the two elements.hi5 ([[Saussure]] put the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] in an ellipse which indicates [[structure|structural unity]] of the [[sign]].com Samsung free ringtones) =====Jacques Lacan=====[[Lacan]] takes up the [[Saussure]]an concept of the [[sign]] in his "[[linguistic]] turn" in [[psychoanalysis]] during the 1950s, 183, http://elvis-presley-free-polybut [[subjects]] it to several modifications.hi5During the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.com elvis presley free polyphonic ringtones =====Relation between Signifier and Signified=====Firstly, :))whereas [[Saussure]] posited the reciprocal implication between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] (they are as mutually interdependent as two sides of a sheet of paper), http://sidekick-3-free-rington[[Lacan]] argues that the relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] is extremely unstable.hi5 =====Primacy of the Signifier=====Secondly, [[Lacan]] asserts the [[existence]] of an order of "pure [[signifiers]]," where [[signifier]]s [[exist]] prior to [[signified]]s; this [[order]] of purely [[logical]] [[structure]] is the [[unconscious]].com sidekick 3 free ringtonesThis amounts to a [[destruction]] of [[Saussure]]'s concept of the [[sign]]; for [[Lacan]], a [[language]] is not composed of [[sign]]s but of [[signifier]]s. =====Saussurean algorithm=====[[Image:))SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|right|thumb|Saussurean algorithm|The Saussurean algorithm]] To illustrate the contrast between his own views and those of [[Saussure]], [[Lacan]] replaces [[Saussure]]'s diagram of the [[sign]] with an [[Saussurean algorithm|algorithm]] which, [[Lacan]] argues, http://uscellularshould be attributed to [[Saussure]] -free-ringtonand is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.hi5"<ref>{{E}} p.com uscellular free ringtones149</ref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], 885508and the '''s''' for the [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] is thus inverted, showing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, http://palmwhereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-ringtones-free[[case]] italic). The arrows and the circle are abolished, representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]].hi5The [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]].com palm ringtones freeFor [[Lacan]], fbqiv, httpthis [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 163</ref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></down-load-funny-free-ri.hi5.com down load funny free ringtones, 8-DD,div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
