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  [[Jacques Lacan]] posits a distinction between [[human]]s ===Languages and other [[animal]]s, that is, between 'human society' and 'animal society'.<ref>S1 p.223</ref>Codes===

As a result, ===Symbolic and Imaginary===The consequence of this fundamental [[animaldifference]] is that [[biology|animal psychology]] is entirely dominated by the [[imaginary]], whereas [[human]] [[psychology]] is complicated by the additional dimension of the [[symbolicdimension]]. [[Lacan]] adopts the traditional [[anthropology|anthropological]] opposition between [[nauture]] and [[culture]] ([[culture]] being, in [[Lacan]]ian terms, of the [[symbolic]] [[order]]).

Like ===Double Sense of the Term===Within the context of this bindary opposition between [[human]] [[Claude Levi-Straussbeing]] s and other [[anthropology|anthropologistsanimal]]s, [[Lacan]] points to uses the term "[[prohibitionnature]] of " in a [[incest]] as the kernel of the [[law|legalcomplex]] [[structuredouble]]] which differentiates [[culture]] from [[naturesense]].

<blockquote>"The primordial Law is therefore that which ==Nature / Culture Opposition==On the one hand, he uses it to designate one term in regulating marriage superimposes the kingdom of opposition, namely the [[nature|animal world]]. In this sense, [[Lacan]] adopts the traditional [[anthropology|anthropological]] opposition between [[nature]] and [[culture]] ([[culture on that of a nature abandoned to ]] being, in [[Lacan]]ian [[terms]], the law of mating."<ref>E. p[[symbolic]] [[order]]).66</ref></blockquote>

The regulation ===Regulation of Kinship===Like [[kinshipClaude Levi-Strauss]] by the and other [[incestanthropology|anthropologists]] , [[tabooLacan]] points to the fact that the [[paternal functionprohibition]] of [[incest]] is at as the heart kernel of the rift between [[humanlaw|legal]]s and [[animalstructure]] which differentiates [[culture]] from [[nature]]s.

By insribing a line of descent from <blockquote>The primordial Law is therefore that which in regulating [[malemarriage]] superimposes the kingdom of culture on that of a nature abandoned to [[male]] and thus ordering a series the law of generations, the [[Father]] marks the difference between the [[symbolic]] and the [[imaginary]]mating.<ref>{{E}} p.66</ref></blockquote>

In other words, what is unique about ===Paternal Function===The regulation of kinship by the [[incest]] [[humantaboo]] beings is not points to the fact that they lack the [[imaginaryName-of-the-Father|paternal function]] dimension is at the heart of the rift between [[human]]s and [[animal]] s. By inscribing a line of descent from [[psychologymale]], but that in human beings this to [[imaginarymale]] and thus ordering a series of generations, the [[orderFather]] is distorted by marks the added dimension of difference between the [[symbolic]] and the [[imaginary]].

===Human and Animal Imaginary===In other [[Lacanwords]], what is unique [[about]] [[human]] [[being]]s is not that in [[human]] [[being]] uses s the term '[[natureimaginary]]' to denote [[order]] is distorted by the idea added dimension of the [[symbolic]]. The [[imaginary]] is what [[animal]]s and [[human]] [[being]]s have in common, except that there in [[human]] [[being]]s it is no longer a 'natural order' in [[humanimaginary]]. Hence [[Lacan]] repudiates "the [[doctrine]] of a discontinuity between animal psychology and human psychology which is far away from our [[existencethought]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.484</ref>

This great ==Natural Order of Human Existence==On the other hand, [[fantasyLacan]] of also uses the term "[[nature]] underlies " to denote the [[modernidea]] that there is a "[[psychologynature|natural order]], which attempts to explain " in [[human]] [[behaviorexistence]] by reference to ethological categories such as , an idea which [[instinct]] and [[adaptationLacan]]calls the "great fantasy of ''nautra mater'', the very idea of nature."<ref>{{S1}} p.149</ref>

===Biological Basis of Human Behavior===This great [[Lacanfantasy]] is highly critical of all such [[nature]] underlies modern [[psychology]], which attempts to explain the phenomena in terms of [[naturehuman]] [[behavior]] by reference to [[biology|ethological categories]] such as [[instinct]] and [[adaptation]].

===Symbolic Alienation from Natural Order===[[Lacan]] is highly critical of all such attempts to explain the phenomena in terms of [[nature]]. He argues that they are based on a failure to recognize the importance of the [[symbolic order]], which radically [[alienation|alienates]] [[human beings ]] [[being]]s from the [[natural givens]] [[order]].

<blockquote>In the [[human ]] [[world]], even "those significations [[signification]]s that are closest to [[need]], significations [[signification]]s that are relative to the most purely [[biological ]] insertion into a nutrittive and captivating [[environment]], primordial significations[[signification]]s, are, in theri their sequence and in their very foundation, subject to the laws [[law]]s of the [[signifier]].<ref>{{S3}} p. 198</ref></blockquote>

===Mythical Pre-Linguistic State of Nature===[[Lacan]] thus argued argues that '"the [[Freudian ]] discovery teaches us that all natural [[harmony ]] in man is profoundly disconcerted."<ref>{{S3}} p. 83</ref> There is not even a pure [[nature|natural state]] at the beginning in which the [[human]] [[subject]] might [[exist]] before being caught up in the [[symbolic]] [[order]].

There <blockquote>"The Law is not even a pure natural state at the beginning in which the [[human]] [[subject]] might [[exist]] before being caught up in the [[symbolic]] [[order]]there ''ab origine''."<ref>{{S3}} p.83</ref></blockquote>

[[Need]] is never [[present ]] in a pure [[pre-oedipal phase|pre-[[linguisticstate]] state in the [[human ]] [[being]]: such a '"[[mythical' ]]" [[linguistic|pre-linguistic ]] [[need]] can only be hypothesized after it has been articulated in [[demand]].

===Human Sexuality, Nature and Culture===The [[absence]] of a [[natural]] [[order]] in [[human]] [[existence]] can be seen most clearly in [[human]] [[sexuality]]. [[Freud]] and [[Lacan]] both argue that [[human ]] [[sexuality]] is entirely caught up in the [[cultural]] [[order]].

====Perversion====There is no such [[Freud]] and [[Lacan]] both argue that even [[sexualitything]], which might seem to be for the [[significationhuman]] closest to nature in the human being, is completely caught up in the as a ''[[culturalnature|natural]] [[order]]; there is no such thing, for the human being, as a natural '' [[sexual relationship]].  One consequence of this is that [[perversion]] cannot be defined by reference to a supposed [[natural]] or [[biological]] [[norm]] governing [[sexuality]].

{{See}}* [[Adaptation]]* [[Alienation]]* [[Biology]]||* [[lawCode]]* [[prohibitionCulture]]* [[biologyDrive]]||* [[Instinct]]* [[Language]]* [[Law]]||* [[Need]]* [[Perversion]]* [[Sexual relationship]]{{Also}}