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{{TopTopp}}loi{{Bottom}} =====Jacques Lacan==========Claude Lévi-Strauss==Social Relations===[[Lacan]]'s discussions of the "[[Law]]" (which [[Lacan]] often writes with a [[capital ]] "L") owe much to the [[work ]] of [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]]. =====Fundamental Principles of all Social Relations===== As in the work of [[Lévi-Strauss]], the [[Law]] in [[Lacan]]'s work refers not to a [[particular ]] piece of legislation, but to ''the fundamental principles which underlie all [[social ]] relations''. =====Universal Structures of Society===== The [[law]] is the set of [[universal ]] principles which make social [[existence ]] possible, ''the [[structure]]s that govern all forms of [[anthropology|social exchange]]'', whether [[anthropology|gift-giving, kinship relations or the formation of pacts. =====Symbolic Exchange==========Law of the Signifier==========Legal-Linguistic Structure=====Since the most basic form of exchange is [[communication]] itself, the [[lawanthropology|kinship relations]] is fundamentally a [[linguistic]] entity -- it is or the [[lawformation]] of the [[signifier]]: <blockquote>This law, then, is revealed clearly enough as identical with an order of language. For without kinship nominations, no power is capable of instituting the order of preferences and taboos that bind and weave the yarn of lineage through succeeding generations.<ref>{{E}} ppacts. 66</ref></blockquote>
=====Symbolic Order=====
Since the most basic [[form]] of [[anthropology|exchange]] is [[communication]] itself, the [[law]] is fundamentally a [[linguistic]] entity -- it is the [[law]] of the [[signifier]]:
<blockquote>This law, then, is revealed clearly enough as identical with an [[order]] of [[language]]. For without kinship nominations, no [[power]] is capable of instituting the order of preferences and taboos that [[bind]] and weave the yarn of lineage through succeeding generations.<ref>{{E}} p. 66</ref></blockquote>
This [[legal]]-[[linguistic]] [[structure]] is in fact no more and no less than the [[symbolic order]] itself.
=====Oedipus Complex=====
=====Regulation of Desire=====
The [[Oedipus complex]] represents the regulation of [[desire]] by the [[law]]. =====Pleasure Principle===== It is the [[law]] of the [[pleasure principle]], which commands the [[subject]] to "[[Enjoy ]] as little as possible!", and thus maintains the [[subject]] at a safe distance from the [[Thing]]. =====Dialectical Relationship between Law and Desire===== The [[relationship ]] between the [[law]] and [[desire]] is, however, a [[dialectic]]al one; "desire is the reverse of the law."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 787</ref> If, on the one hand, [[law]] imposes limits on [[desire]], it is also [[true ]] that the [[law]] creates [[desire]] in the first [[place ]] by creating interdiction. =====Desire to Transgress===== [[Desire]] is essentially the [[desire]] to [[transgress]], and for there to be [[transgression]] it is first necesary for there to be [[prohibition]].<ref>{{S7}} p.83-4</ref> =====Desire Born Out of Regulation===== Thus it is not the [[case ]] that there is a pregiven [[desire]] which the [[law]] then regulates, but that [[desire]] is [[born ]] out of the [[process ]] of regulation.
<blockquote>"What we see here is the tight bond between desire and Law."<ref>{{S7}} p. 177</ref></blockquote>
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