Look! Only now! Discounts!{{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://stockingchristmas# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-[[image]]). The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond. =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.co<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]].cc/basket-christmas-gift-last-minute(1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed.html basket christmas gift last minuteCharles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, 958866trans. Wade Baskin, httpGlasgow://stockingchristmasCollins Fontana.cop.cc114</basket-christmas-gift-island-long-nyref> In this diagram, the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, the reciprocal implication of the two elements.html basket christmas gift island long ny, npugwa([[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://stockingchristmasbut [[subjects]] it to several modifications.co.cc/basket-christmas-gift-During the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to makeus of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.html basket christmas gift make =====Relation between Signifier and Signified=====Firstly, 7199whereas [[Saussure]] posited the reciprocal implication between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] (they are as mutually interdependent as two sides of a sheet of paper), http://stockingchristmas.co.cc/basket-christmas-gift-intitle-intitle-intitle[[Lacan]] argues that the relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] is extremely unstable.html basket christmas gift intitle intitle intitle =====Primacy of the Signifier=====Secondly, >:-OO[[Lacan]] asserts the [[existence]] of an order of "pure [[signifiers]], http://stockingchristmas" where [[signifier]]s [[exist]] prior to [[signified]]s; this [[order]] of purely [[logical]] [[structure]] is the [[unconscious]].coThis 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.cc/basket-christmas-gift-louis-st =====Saussurean algorithm=====[[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.html basket christmas gift louis stgif|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://stockingchristmasshould be attributed to [[Saussure]] -- and is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.co"<ref>{{E}} p.cc149</basket-christmas-gift-in-toronto.html basket christmas gift in Torontoref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], and the '''s''' for the [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] is thus inverted, 838718showing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, http://stockingchristmas.co.cc/basketwhereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-christmas-gift-italian[[case]] italic).html basket christmas gift italianThe arrows and the circle are abolished, >:D, http://stockingchristmasrepresenting the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]].co.cc/basket-christmas-gift-The [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in-jackson-mo[[signification]].html basket christmas gift in Jackson moFor [[Lacan]], 8)), http://stockingchristmasthis [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]].co"<ref>{{E}} p.cc163</basketref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-christmassize:11px" class="references-gift-kid.html basket christmas gift kid, small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:P,OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
