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===Ferdinand de Saussure===
[[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|thumb|200px|right|The Saussurean Sign]]
According to [[Saussure]], the [[sign]] is the basic unit of [[language]]
The term '[[sign]]' is constituted by two elements: # the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (''signe''or [[concept]]) is defined by , and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-[[Jacques Lacanimage]] as that which "represents something for someone)."
The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond.
The =====Saussurean Sign=====[[signifierSaussure]] represented the [[sign]] is "that which represents by means of a subject for another signifierdiagram."<ref>S11[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans. Wade Baskin, 207Glasgow: Collins Fontana. p.114</ref>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. 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), [[Lacan]] argues that the relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] is extremely unstable.
By engaging with the concept =====Primacy of the signSignifier=====Secondly, [[Lacan sets his work in close relation ]] 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 science [[unconscious]]. This amounts to a [[destruction]] of [[Saussure]]'s concept of semioticsthe [[sign]]; for [[Lacan]], which has grown rapidly in the twentieth centurya [[language]] is not composed of [[sign]]s but of [[signifier]]s.
Two main lines =====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 development can be discerned within semiotics: the European line associated [[sign]] with Ferdinand de an [[Saussurean algorithm|algorithm]] which, [[Lacan]] argues, should be attributed to [[Saussure (which ]] -- and is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure himself baptised with ]]an algorithm."<ref>{{E}} p.149</ref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], and the name of 'semiology''s''' for the [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] is thus inverted, showing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, whereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-[[case]] italic). The arrows and the circle are abolished, representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]]. The [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the North American line associated with Charles S[[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]]. For [[Lacan]], this [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]]. Peirce"<ref>{{E}} p.163</ref>
l. According to Saussure, the sign is the basic unit of ==See Also=={{See}}* [[languageEnunciation]].The sign is constituted by two elements: a conceptual element (which Saussure calls the signified), and a phonological element (called the signifier). * [[Index]]The two elements are linked by an arbitrary but unbreakable bond. * [[Language]]Saussure represented the sign by means of a diagram.<ref>Figurel7; see Saussure, 1916: 114</ref>||In this diagram, the arrows represent the reciprocal implication inherent in signification, and the line between the signified and the signifier represents umon.* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]Lacan takes up the Saussurean concept of the sign in his 'linguistic turn' in psychoanalysis during the 1950s, but subjects it to several modifications.* [[Signification]]Firstly, whereas Saussure posited the reciprocal implication between the signifier and the 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. ||Secondly, Lacan asserts the existence of an order of 'pure signifiers', where signifiers exist prior to signifieds; this order of purely logical structure is the unconscious. * [[Signified]]This amounts to a destruction of Saussure's concept of the sign; for Lacan, a language is not composed of signs but of signifiers. To illustrate the contrast between his own views and those of Saussure, Lacan replaces Saussure's diagram of the sign with an algorithm which, Lacan argues, should be attributed to Saussure (and is thus now sometimes referred to as the 'Saussurean algorithm').<ref> - see E, 149</ref> 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 capitalised, whereas the signifier is reduced to mere lower-case italic). * [[Signifying Chain]]The arrows and the circle are abolished, representing the absence of a stable or fixed relation between signifier and signified. The * [[barShifter]] between the signifier and the signified no longer represents union but the resistance inherent in signification. For Lacan, this algorithm defines "the topography of the unconscious."<ref>E, 163</ref> 2. According to Peirce, the sign is something which represents an object to some interpretant (the term 'object' can mean, for Peirce, a physical thing, an event, an idea, or another sign). ||Peirce divides signs into three classes: 'symbols', 'indices' and 'icons', which differ in the way they relate to the object. The symbol has no 'natural' or necessary relationship to the object it refers to, but is related to the object by a purely conventional rule. The * [[indexSubject]] has an 'existential relation' to the object it represents (i.e. the index is always spatially or temporally contiguous to the object). The icon represents an object by exhibiting its form via similarity. Peirce's distinctions between icons, indices and symbols are analytical and not intended to be mutually exclusive. Hence a sign will almost always function in a variety of modes; personal pronouns, for example,are signs which function both * [[SymbolicSymbol]]ally and indexically.<ref>see Peirce, 1932: 156-73; Burks, 1949</ref> Lacan takes up Peirce's concept of the index in order to distinguish between the psychoanalytic and medical concepts of the symptom, and to distinguish between (animal) codes and (human) languages. Lacan also develops the concept of the index along the lines set down by Roman Jakobson in the concept of the * [[shifterSymptom]], to distinguish between the subject of the statement and the subject of the enunciation.{{Also}}
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