Forever!{{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://ringtones# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-movie-free[[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 ringtones movie freeCharles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, 860337trans. Wade Baskin, httpGlasgow:Collins Fontana. p.114<//lg-shine-free-ringtonesref> In this diagram, the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, the reciprocal implication of the two elements. ([[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, but [[subjects]] it to several modifications.hi5During the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.com LG shine free 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://ringtones-for-blackberr[[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 ringtones This amounts to a [[destruction]] of [[Saussure]]'s concept of the [[sign]]; for Blackberry free[[Lacan]], a [[language]] is not composed of [[sign]]s but of [[signifier]]s. =====Saussurean algorithm=====DDD, http[[Image://totally-free-broadway-rSAUSSUREANALGORITHM.hi5.com totally free broadway 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, yggghy[[Lacan]] argues, http://boostshould be attributed to [[Saussure]] -mobile-free-onlinand is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.hi5"<ref>{{E}} p.com boosT mobile free online ringtones149</ref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], and the '''s''' for the [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] is thus inverted, 8653showing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, http://absloutlywhereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-free-ringtone[[case]] italic).hi5The arrows and the circle are abolished, representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]].com absloutly free ringtones The [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no cargelonger represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]]. For [[Lacan]], 2454, http://sada-sterio-ringtones-fthis [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]].hi5"<ref>{{E}} p.com sada sterio ringtones free, 5663, http:163<//telusref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-mobility-freesize:11px" class="references-rin.hi5.com telus mobility free ringtones, 2993, http:small"><references/></g3-for-free-ringtones.hi5.com g3 for free ringtones, 150959,div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
