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 "[[other]]"/"[[Other]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[autre]]''/''[[Autre]]'')  The "[[other]]" is perhaps the most [[complex ]] term in [[Lacan]]'s work.  [[Freudwork]] uses the term ". {{Top}}[[otherautre]]" to speak of ''[[Other|der Andere]]'' ("the other person") and , ''[[Other|das Andere]]'' ("otherness").Autre{{Bottom}}

When [[LacanFreud]] first begins to use uses the term, in the 1930s, it is not very salient, and refers simply to "other people." [[Lacan]] seems to have borrowed the term from [[Hegel]], to whose work [[Lacan]] was introduced in a series of lectures given by [[Alexandre Kojève]] in 1933-9. ===Little Other versus the Big Other===In 1955, [[Lacan]] draws a distinction between the "[[little other]]" and the "[[big Other]]" ("the to [[Otherspeak]]"), a distinction which remains central throughout the rest of his work.<ref>{{S2}} Chapter 19</ref> Thereafter, in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]], the [[big Other]] is designated '''A''' (upper case, for [[French]] ''[[Other|Autreder Andere]]''("the other person") and the [[little other]] is deisgnated <i>'''a'''</i> (lower case italicized, for [[French]] ''[[Other|autredas Andere]]'') [[Lacan]] asserts that an awareness of this distinction is fundamental to [[analytic treatment|analytic practice]]: the [[analyst]] must be ("thoroughly imbuedotherness" with the difference between '''A''' and <i>'''a'''</i>),<ref>{{E}} p.140</ref> so that he can situate himself but in the place of [[Other]]1930s, and not of the when [[otherLacan]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.454</ref> ===The little other=== The [[little other]] is first begins to use the [[other]] who term, it is notvery salient, in fact, [[other]], but a [[reflection]] or [[projection]] of the [[ego]].<ref>This is why the symbol a can represent the little other and the ego interchangeably in [[schema l]].</ref> It is simultaneously the [[counterpart and the [[specular image]]. The [[little refers simply to "other]] is inscribed in the [[imaginary]] [[order]] as both the [[counterpart]] and the [[specular imagepeople]].   ===The big Other=== " The term seems to be borrowed from [[big Other]] designates radical [[alterityHegel]], an [[otherness]] which transcends the [[illusory]] [[other|otherness]] of the [[imaginary]] because it cannot be assimilated through [[identification]]. to whose work [[Lacan]] equates the [[big Other]] with [[language]] and the [[law]], and hence the [[big Other]] is inscribed was introduced in the a series of lectures given by [[symbolic]] [[order]]. Indeed, the [[big Other]] ''is'' the [[symbolic]] insofar as it is particularized for each [[subject]]. Thus, the [[Other]] is both an[[other]] [[subjectAlexandre Kojève]] in its radical [[alterity]] and unassimilable uniqueness and also the [[symbolic]] [[order]] which mediates the relationship with that [[subject]]. 1933--- However, the meaning of "the [[Other]] as an[[other]] [[subject]]" is strictly secondary to the meaning of "the [[Other]] as [[symbolic]] [[order]]9."

==Little and Big Other==In 1955, [[Lacan]] draws a [[distinction]] between the "[[little other]]" and the "[[big Other]]" ("The the [[Other]]"), a distinction which remains central throughout the rest of his work.<ref>{{S2}} Chapter 19</ref> Thereafter, in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]], the [[big Other]] is designated '''A''' (upper [[case]], for [[French]] ''[[Other |Autre]]'') and the [[little other]] is designated <i>'''a'''</i> (lower case italicized, for [[French]] ''[[Other|autre]]''). [[Lacan]] asserts that an [[awareness]] of this distinction is fundamental to [[analytic treatment|analytic practice]]: the [[analyst]] must first of all be considered "thoroughly imbued" with the [[difference]] between '''A''' and <i>'''a locus'''</i>, <ref>{{E}} p. 140</ref> so that he can situate himself in the locus in which speech is constitutedplace of [[Other]], and not of the [[other]]."<ref>{{S3Ec}} p.274454</ref>

It is thus only possible to speak of the ===Little other (autre, "''a''") ===The [[Otherlittle other]] as a is the [[subjectother]] who is not, in a secondary sensefact, in the sense that a [[subjectother]] may occupy this position and thereby 'embody' the , but a [[Otherreflection]] for anor [[otherprojection]] of the [[subjectego]].<ref>{{S8}} pThis is why the symbol a can [[represent]] the little other and the ego interchangeably in [[schema L]].202</ref>It is simultaneously the [[counterpart]] and the [[specular image]]. The [[little other]] is inscribed in the [[imaginary]] [[order]] as both the [[counterpart]] and the [[specular image]].

===Big Other (Autre, "A")===The Unconscious [[big Other]] designates radical [[alterity]], an [[otherness]] which transcends the [[illusory]] [[other|otherness]] of the [[imaginary]] because it cannot be assimilated through [[identification]]. [[Lacan]] equates the [[big Other]] with [[language]] and the [[law]], and hence the [[big Other]] is inscribed in the [[symbolic]] [[order]]. Indeed, the [[big Other]] ''is '' the Discourse of [[symbolic]] insofar as it is particularized for each [[subject]]. Thus, the [[Other==]] is both another [[subject]] in its radical [[alterity]] and unassimilable uniqueness and also the [[symbolic]] [[order]] which mediates the [[relationship]] with that [[subject]].

In arguing that [[speech]] originates not in ==Speech and the [[ego]] or even in Other==However, the [[subjectmeaning]] but in of "the [[Other]], as another [[Lacansubject]] " is stressing that strictly secondary to the meaning of "the [[speechOther]] and as [[languagesymbolic]] are beyond [[consciousorder]] control; they come from an [[other]] place." "The Other must first of all be considered a locus, [[outside]] [[consciousness]], and hence "the [[unconscious]] locus in which speech is the [[discourse]] of the [[Other]]constituted."<ref>{{EcS3}} p.16274</ref> In conceiving It is thus only possible to speak of the [[Other]] as a [[placesubject]], [[Lacan]] alludes to [[Freud]]'s concept of in a secondary [[psychical localitysense]], in which the sense that a [[unconscioussubject]] is described as may occupy this position and thereby "embody"the [[otherOther]] for another [[scenesubject]]."<ref>{{S8}} p. 202</ref>

It is the [[mother]] who first occupies the [[position]] of the [[big Other]] for the [[child]], because it is she who receives the [[child]]'s [[primitive ]] cries and [[retroactively]] sanctions [[them ]] as a [[particular ]] [[message]].  The [[castration complex]] is formed when the [[child]] discovers that this [[Other]] is not [[complete]], that there is a [[lack]] in the [[Other]].  In other [[words]], there is always a [[signifier]] [[missing ]] from the treasury of [[signifier]]s constituted by the [[Other]].  The [[mythical]] complete [[Other]] (written '''A''' in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]]) does not [[exist]].  In 1957 [[Lacan]] illustrates this incomplete [[Other]] graphically by striking a [[bar]] through the [[symbol]] '''<strike>A</strike>'''. Hence another [[name ]] for the [[castrated]], incomplete [[Other]] is the ''[[barred]] [[Other]]''.

The Other is also "the Other sex."<ref>{{S20}} p.40</ref>  The [[Other]] [[sex]] is always [[woman]], for both [[male]] and [[female]] [[subjects]]. <blockquote>"[[Man]] here [[acts ]] as the relay whereby the [[Womanwoman]] becomes this Other for herself as she is this [[Other]] for him."<ref>{{Ec}} p.732</ref></blockquote>

* [[Big OtherLack]]||

* [[Ego]]* [[Counterpart]]* [[Specular image]]* [[Imaginary]]* [[Objet petit a]]* [[Mother]]* [[LackUnconscious]]

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