Fine {{Top}}[[signe]]{{Bottom}} ===Ferdinand de Saussure===[[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|thumb|200px|right|The Saussurean Sign]]According to [[Saussure]], the [[sign]] is the basic unit of [[language]] The [[sign]] is constituted by two elements: # the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and pretty site! Very good owner!# the [[signifier]], http://cellulara phonological element (or sound-one-free-ringt[[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 cellular one free ringtones<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, fqlFerdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', http://absolutely-free-tracfoned.hi5Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans.com absolutely free tracfone ringtones, 8-DDWade Baskin, httpGlasgow://jeffree-star-ringtonesCollins Fontana.hi5p.com jeffree star ringtones114</ref> In this diagram, the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, the reciprocal implication of the two elements. 120([[Saussure]] put the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] in an ellipse which indicates [[structure|structural unity]] of the [[sign]].) =====Jacques Lacan=====[[Lacan]] takes up the [[Saussure]]an concept of the [[sign]] in his "[[linguistic]] turn" in [[psychoanalysis]] during the 1950s, http://cingular-ringtones-freebut [[subjects]] it to several modifications.hi5During the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.com Cingular ringtones free =====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://make-ringtones-free[[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 make ringtones freeThis 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://absolutelyshould be attributed to [[Saussure]] -free-ringtonand is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.hi5"<ref>{{E}} p.com absolutely free ringtones no subscriptions149</ref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], and the '''s''' for the [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] is thus inverted, dlfpsshowing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, http://ringtoneswhereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-cingular-emin[[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 ringtones Cingular eminem free, yihyFor [[Lacan]], http://ringtones-free-downloadthis [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]].hi5"<ref>{{E}} p.com ringtones free download, 8163</ref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-(((, httpsize:11px" class="references-small"><references/></saving-jane-free-ringto.hi5.com saving jane free ringtones, yfwsdr,div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
