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{| style="line-height:2.0em;width:100%;text-align:justify;"|style="width:100%;border:0px solid #cccccc;background-color:#ffffff;vertical-align:top"|{| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:top;background-color:#ffffff"|-|style="text-align:justify;color:#000;line-height:2.5em;align:justify;"|The "[[graph of desire]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[graphe du désir]]'') is a [[topology|topographical representationtopological model]] -- schema or model -- of the [[structure]] of [[desire]].

==Jacques LacanHistory==[[Jacques Lacan]] first develops began to develop the [[graph of desire]] in his [[{{Y}}|1957]]-[[{{Y}}|58]] [[seminar]], ''[[Seminar V|Les formations de l'inconscient]]''.<ref>[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. ''[[Seminar V|Les formations de l'inconscient]]''. [[Seminar V|The Formations of the seminar of Unconscious]]. [[{{Y}}|1957]]-8[[{{Y}}|58]]</ref> The [[graph of desire]]reappears in some of the following [[seminar] ]s in order to illustrate various forms, although the most well known [[psychoanalytic theoryform]] of it appears in "[[jokeThe Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious]]s."<ref>[[FreudJacques Lacan|FreudLacan, SigmundJacques]]. "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Subversion du sujet et dialectique du désir dans l'inconscient freudien]]. " ''Jokes [[Écrits]]''. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1966. p.793-827. "[[The subversion of the subject and their Relation to the Unconsciousdialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]." [[Ecrits: A Selection]]. Trans. Alan [[Sheridan]]. [[Bruce Fink]]. [[London]]: Tavistock. 1977. New York: W. W. Norton. SE VIII2004. 1905p.292-325</ref>

The ==Four Stages==In this paper, [[graph of desire|graphLacan]] reappears in some of builds up the following [[seminarsgraph of desire]], but then all but disappears from [[Lacan]]'s in four [[Works of Jacques Lacan|workstages]].

The [[graph of desire|graph]] appears in various forms, although the most well known form of it appears in "[[The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]."<ref>[[Lacan, Jacques]]. "Subversion du sujet et dialectique du désir dans l'inconscient freudien." ''[[Écrits]]''. Paris: Seuil, 1966. p.793-827. "[[The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]." [[Ecrits: A Selection]]. Trans. Alan Sheridan. Bruce Fink. London: Tavistock. 1977. New York: W. W. Norton. 2004. p.292-325</ref> It -- the [[graph of desire]] -- achieved its definitive form in this paper. ===Four Stages===In this paper, [[Lacan]] builds up the [[graph of desire]] in four stages. Its four successive stages represent the constitution of the [[human]] [[subject]] and his [[desire]]. ====Elementary Cell====[[Image:Lacan-graph-elementary.jpg|Elementary Cell|thumb|right]]

The horizontal line represents the [[diachronic]] [[signifying chain]]; the horseshowhorseshoe-shaped line represents the vector of the [[subject]]'s [[intention]]ality.

The [[double ]] intersection of these two lines illustrates the [[nature ]] of [[time|retroaction]]: the [[message]], at the point marked '''s(A)''' in the [[graph of desire|elementary cell]], is the ''[[point de capiton]]'' determined [[time|retroactively]] by the [[particular ]] [[punctuation]] given to it by the [[Other]], '''A'''.

The pre[[linguistic|prelinguistic]] [[mythical ]] [[subject]] of pure [[need]], indicated by the [[triangle]], must [[pass ]] through the defiles of the [[signifier]] which produces the [[divided]] [[subject]], '''$'''.

====Intermediate Stages====The intermediate stages of the [[graph of desire]] are not meant to show any [[progress|evolution]] or [[development|temporal development]], since the [[graph of desire|graph]] always [[exists ]] as a [[whole]]; they are simply pedagogical devices used by [[Lacan]] in [[order ]] to illustrate the [[structure]] of the [[graph of desire|complete graph]].<ref>{{E}} p.315</ref>

Rather, it represents the "[[logical ]] moments" of the [[birth ]] of a [[speaking]] [[subject]].

====Complete Graph====[[Image:Lacan-graph-complete.jpg|Complete Graph|thumb|right]]

In the [[graph of desire|complete completed graph]] there are not one but two [[signifying chain]]s.

The lower [[chain]] (from the [[signifier]] to the [[voice]]) is the [[conscious]] [[signifying chain]], the level of the [[statement]].

The [[structure]] is thus duplicated: the upper part of the [[graph]] is [[structured ]] exactly like the lower part.

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