All news{{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://goodvalentinesday.co.cc/kids-valentines-day-gifts.html kids Valentines day gifts# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), 3972and # the [[signifier]], http://goodvalentinesdaya phonological element (or sound-[[image]]).co The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond.cc/kids-valentines-day-cards-to-print =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.html kids Valentines day cards to print<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, 8)Ferdinand de]]. (1916)''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', http://goodvalentinesdayed.co.cc/kids-valentines-day-jokesCharles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans.html kids Valentines day jokes, rluymWade Baskin, httpGlasgow://goodvalentinesdayCollins Fontana.cop.cc114</kids-valentines-day-party-ideas.html kids Valentines day party ideasref> In this diagram, 8-the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, http://goodvalentinesdaythe reciprocal implication of the two elements.co ([[Saussure]] put the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] in an ellipse which indicates [[structure|structural unity]] of the [[sign]].cc/kids-valentines-day-cards-) =====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-makeseveral modifications.html kids Valentines day cards During the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to makeus 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), [[Lacan]] argues that the relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] is extremely unstable. =====Primacy of the Signifier=====Secondly, 8-[[Lacan]] asserts the [[existence]] of an order of "pure [[signifiers]], http://goodvalentinesday" 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/kids-valentines-day-party =====Saussurean algorithm=====[[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.html kids Valentines day partygif|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, izozqx[[Lacan]] argues, http://goodvalentinesdayshould be attributed to [[Saussure]] -- and is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.co"<ref>{{E}} p.cc149</kids-valentines-day-cards-online.html kids Valentines day cards onlineref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], and 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://goodvalentinesdaywhereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-[[case]] italic).coThe arrows and the circle are abolished, representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]].cc/kids-valentines-day-cardsThe [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]].html kids Valentines day cardsFor [[Lacan]], 332289, http://goodvalentinesdaythis [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]].co"<ref>{{E}} p.cc163</kidsref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-valentinessize:11px" class="references-day-game-ideas.html kids Valentines day game ideas, kolnf,small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
