Absence
The symbolic order is characterized by a binary opposition between absence and presence.[1]
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- ↑ Lacan, Jacques. Le Séminaire. Livre IV. La relation d'objet, 19566-57. Ed. Jacques-Alain Miller. Paris: Seuil, 1991. p.67-8