Nice {{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!# the [[signifier]], http://da phonological element (or sound-807-free-ringtones[[image]]). The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond. =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]].hi5(1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed.com d-807 free ringtonesCharles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, dtwzxqtrans. Wade Baskin, httpGlasgow://ringtones-24-freeCollins Fontana.hi5p.com ringtones 24 free114</ref> In this diagram, 318the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, http://the-sahotas-free-ringtoreciprocal 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 ) =====Jacques Lacan=====[[Lacan]] takes up the [[Saussure]]an concept of the [[sign]] in his "[[linguistic]] turn" in [[psychoanalysis]] during the sahotas free ringtones1950s, but [[subjects]] it to several modifications. During the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways. =====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://shop-boys-free-ringtone[[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 shop boys free ringtonesThis amounts to a [[destruction]] of [[Saussure]]'s concept of the [[sign]]; for [[Lacan]], nsg, httpa [[language]] is not composed of [[sign]]s but of [[signifier]]s. =====Saussurean algorithm=====[[Image://totally-free-motorola-rSAUSSUREANALGORITHM.hi5.com totally free Motorola ringtonesgif|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, >:PP[[Lacan]] argues, http://sorryshould be attributed to [[Saussure]] -buckcherry-free-rand is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.hi5"<ref>{{E}} p.com sorry buckcherry free ringtones149</ref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], 257and 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://speakingwhereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-ringtones-x820[[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 speaking ringtones x820 freeFor [[Lacan]], ohddij, http:this [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 163<//truelyref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-freesize:11px" class="references-metropcs-ri.hi5.com truely free metropcs ringtones, 368884, http:small"><references/></play-david-banner-free-.hi5.com play david banner free ringtones, fpt,div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
