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The "[[other]]" is perhaps the most [[complex]] term in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]]. {{Top}}[[autre]]]]'', ''[[Autre{{Bottom}}
=====Sigmund Freud===Little and Big Other==In 1955, [[Lacan]] draws a [Freud[distinction]] uses between the term "[[little other]]" to speak and the "[[big Other]]" ("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|der AndereAutre]]'' (") and the [[little other person") and ]] is designated <i>'''a'''</i> (lower case italicized, for [[French]] ''[[Other|das Andereautre]]'' (). [[Lacan]] asserts that an [[awareness]] of this distinction is fundamental to [[analytic treatment|analytic practice]]: the [[analyst]] must be "othernessthoroughly imbued")with the [[difference]] between '''A''' and <i>'''a'''</i>,<ref>{{E}} p. 140</ref> so that he can situate himself in the place of [[Other]], and not of the [[other]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.454</ref>
=====Development==Little other (autre, "''a''") ===When The [[Lacanlittle other]] first begins to use is the term[[other]] who is not, 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 1930s, it ego interchangeably in [[schema L]].</ref> It is not very salient, simultaneously the [[counterpart]] and refers simply to "the [[specular image]]. The [[little other people]] is inscribed in the [[imaginary]] [[order]] as both the [[counterpart]] and the [[specular image]]."
===Big Other (Autre, "A")===The [[big Other]] designates radical [[alterity]], an [[otherness]] which transcends the [[illusory]] [[other|otherness]] of the [[imaginary]] because it cannot be assimilated through [[identification]]. [[Lacan]] seems to have borrowed equates the [[big Other]] with [[language]] and the term from [[Hegellaw]], to whose work and hence the [[Lacanbig Other]] was introduced is inscribed in a series of lectures given by the [[symbolic]] [[order]]. Indeed, the [[big Other]] ''is'' the [[symbolic]] insofar as it is particularized for each [[subject]]. Thus, the [[Other]] is both another [[Alexandre Kojèvesubject]] in 1933-9its radical [[alterity]] and unassimilable uniqueness and also the [[symbolic]] [[order]] which mediates the [[relationship]] with that [[subject]].
=====Little Speech and Big===the Other==In 1955However, the [[Lacanmeaning]] draws a distinction between of "the "[[little otherOther]] as another [[subject]]" and is strictly secondary to the meaning of "the [[big Other]]as [[symbolic]] [[order]]." ("The Other must first of all be considered a locus, the locus in which speech is constituted."<ref>{{S3}} p. 274</ref> It is thus only possible to speak of the [[Other]]")as a [[subject]] in a secondary [[sense]], in the sense that a distinction which remains central throughout [[subject]] may occupy this position and thereby "embody" the rest of his work[[Other]] for another [[subject]].<ref>{{S2S8}} Chapter 19p. 202</ref>
==Lack in the Other==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]] [[Lacanmessage]]. The [[castration complex]] is formed when the [[child]] asserts discovers that an awareness of this distinction [[Other]] is fundamental to not [[complete]], that there is a [[lack]] in the [[Other]]. In other [[words]], there is always a [[signifier]] [[analytic treatment|analytic practicemissing]]: from the treasury of [[analystsignifier]] must be "thoroughly imbued" with s constituted by the difference between [[Other]]. The [[mythical]] complete [[Other]] (written '''A''' and <i>'''in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]]) does not [[exist]]. In 1957 [[Lacan]] illustrates this incomplete [[Other]] graphically by striking a[[bar]] through the [[symbol]] '''</istrike>,A<ref/strike>{{E}} p'''. 140</ref> so that he can situate himself in Hence another [[name]] for the place of [[castrated]], incomplete [[Other]], and not of is the ''[[otherbarred]] [[Other]]''.<ref>{{Ec}} p.454</ref>
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