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"[[metaphor]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[métaphore]]'')
[[Metaphor]] is usually defined as a trope in which one thing is described by comparing it to another, but without directly asserting a comparison.
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Following [[Jakobson]]'s [[identificaitonidentification]] of [[metaphor]] with the substitutive axis of [[language]], [[Lacan]] defines [[metaphor]] as the substitution of one [[signifier]] for another, and provides the first formula of [[metaphor]].<ref>{{E}} p.164</ref>