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The [[L and R schemas ]] are two of [[Lacan]]'s didactic [[diagrams]]; they articulate the [[dual ]] relation, between the [[imaginary ]] (which is dualistic) and the [[symbolic]], (which adds a [[third ]] element).

[[Human ]] beings are at first [[captured ]] in [[the symbolic ]] [[order ]] before they are aware of it. They enter into it, through the parades of [[speech]], as in the fort/da [[game ]] that [[Freud ]] described in Beyond the [[Pleasure ]] [[Principle ]] (1920g).[[Schema ]] L developed out of Lacan's study of Poe's story "The Purloined [[Letter]]" in his [[seminar ]] of 1954-55. It depicts the...