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{| align="[[right]]" style=Dictionary=="line-height:2.0em;text-align:right;margin-left: 10px;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #aaa" For Jacques Lacan, the symbolic (| [[French]]:''[[symbolique]]''), or the symbolic order, is a universal structure encompassing the entire field of human action and existence. It involves the function of speech and language, and more precisely that of the signifier. It appears as an essentially unconscious, latent apparatus.|}
In [[Lacan repeatedly referred to the canonical example of ]]ian [[psychoanalysis]], the "child with the reel[[symbolic]]" from Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud, 1920g) in order to emphasize that the mark of the absence of the beloved object is realized by the fort-da game one of phonetic opposition [[three]] [[order]]s that represented the appearance and disappearance of [[structure]] [[human]] [[existence]], the mother. This correlation between [[others]] [[being]] the missing object [[imaginary]] and a symbolic signifying mark inscribed in language removes the object's concrete features and grants it a level of conceptual force[[real]].
==History==The emergence of the signifier term "[[symbolic]]" appears in adjectival [[form]] in the Lacan's earliest [[psychoanalytic]] writings. The adjectival "[[symbolic ]]" is best shown often used by [[Lacan]] in a fairly conventional [[sense]], but in the infant's initiation into 1950s he begins to use the dialectical field of demand [[word]] as a substantive, and desire, for it is in rapidly becomes the experience cornerstone of vital distress and his [[theory]]: the [[subject]]'s [[relationship]] with the appeal to a caretaker that a split occurs. Even if this caretaker satisfies a vital need, there [[symbolic]] is still a gaping lack the heart of being[[psychoanalysis]]. This equivocal division is brought about by the signifier It now becomes one of the first demand. It brings with it consequences beyond three [[orders]] that remain central throughout the frontiers rest of infancy and perpetuates a radical division in subjectivityLacan's [[work]]. It also grants to Of these three orders, the unconscious Other its symbolic place because is the ultimate meaning most crucial one for psychoanalysis; [[psychoanalysts]] are essentially 'practitioners of this signifier is assumed by the subject to reside in this other scenesymbolic function'.<ref>{{E}} p.72</ref>
==Culture==
Adapting [[Lévi-Strauss]]'s study of how kinship rules and exogamy govern exchanges between human groups to the field of [[psychoanalysis]], [[Lacan]] now describes the [[Oedipus complex]] as a [[process]] which imposes [[symbolic]] [[structure]]s on [[sexuality]] and allows the [[subject]] to emerge. [[Pre-oedipal|Pre-oedipal sexuality]] is likened to a [[state]] of [[nature]] and unbridled sexuality; the role of the [[Name-of-the-Father]] is to disrupt the [[dual relation]]ship in which the [[child]] tries to fuse with the [[mother]] in an incestuous union, and to establish a legitimate line of descent ("son of...", "daughter of..."). [[Culture]] and the [[symbolic]] are thuse imposed upon [[nature]]. The [[subject]] gains access to the [[symbolic]], to a [[name]] and a lineage, but does so at the cost of a [[symbolic|symbolic castration]]. Although the exchange of [[signifier]]s in [[speech]] is an obvious example of [[symbolic|symbolic exchange]], [[Lacan]]'s [[symbolic]] is not simply synonymous with [[language]], and should be [[understood]] as comprising the entire [[domain]] of [[culture]].
==DefinitionLanguage==The term 'symbolic' appears in adjectival Since the most basic form in Lacan's earliest psychoanalytic writings.of exchange is [[communication]] itself (the exchange of [[words]], the [[gift]] of [[speech]]);<ref> (e.g{{S4}} p. Lacan, 1936)189</ref> In these early works and since the term implies references to symbolic logic [[concepts]] of [[law]] and to of [[structure]] are unthinkable without [[language]], the equations used in mathematical physics[[symbolic]] is essentially a [[linguistic]] [[dimension]].<ref> (Ec, 79)<.ref> In 1948 symptoms are said Any aspect of the psychoanalytic [[experience]] which has a [[linguistic]] [[structure]] thus pertains to have a 'the [[symbolic meaning'order]].<ref>(E, 10)</ref> By 1950, the term has acquired anthropological overtones, as when Lacan praises Marcel Mauss for having shown The [[symbolic]] dimension of [[language]] is that 'of the structures [[signifier]]; a dimension in which elements have no positive [[existence]] but which are constituted purely by virtue of society are symbolic'their mutual differences.<ref>(Ec, 132)</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Imaginary]]
* [[Name-of-the-Father]]
* [[NeurosisOedipus complex]]* [[ObjectOther]]* [[Object a]]||* [[Optical schemaOrder]]* [[Phallus]]* [[Privation]]* [[Psychoses, chronic and delusional Real]]* [[Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic father]] * [[Formulas of Sexuation]]* [[Signifier]] * [[Structuralism and psychoanalysis]]* [[Subject]] * [[Subject's desire]]||* [[SymbolStructure]] * [[SymbolizationUnconscious]]* [[Symptom]]* [[sinthome]] * [[Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality]]* [[Topology]]* [[Unary trait]]* [[Want of being/lack of being]]{{Also}}
==References==
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