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• Cause
  The [[concept]] of [[causality]] forms an important thread that runs throughout It first appears in the context of the question of the [[cause]] of [[psychosis]], which is a central concern of [[Lacan]]'s docto
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• Cogito
  ...s attitude to [[Cartesian]]ism is extremely [[complex]], and only a few of the most important points can be summarised here. ...sparency|self-transparency]] of [[consciousness]], and the [[autonomy]] of the [[ego]].<ref>{{E}} p. 6</ref>
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• Communication
  # Firstly, they usually involve a reference to the [[category]] of intentionality, which is conceived of as coterminuous with ...cted Writings'', vol. II, ''[[Poetry]] of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry'', The [[Hague]]: Mouton, 1981, p. 21</ref>
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• Unconscious
  ...ystems'' described by [[Freud]] in his [[topology|topographical model]] of the [[psyche]], his first [[theory]] of [[psyche|mental]] [[structure]]. [[Image:Freudpsyche.gif|thumb|300px|right|[[Unconscious|Freud's Model of the Unconscious]]]]
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• Time
  One of the most distinctive features of [[Lacanian psychoanalysis]] is [[Lacan]]'s app ...zed by two important innovations: the [[concept]] of [[logical time]], and the stress on [[retroaction]] and [[anticipation]].
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• Split
  =====Splitting of the Ego===== ...[[disavowal]].<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Splitting of the Ego in the Process of Defence]]." [[SE]] XXIII, 1938. p. 273</ref>
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• Structure
  In his [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|early work]], [[Lacan]] uses the term "[[structure]]" to refer to "[[structure|social structures]]" by which ...ofoundly than the [[adult]], and [[introjection|internalizes]] [[them]] in the [[complex]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.89</ref>.
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• Speech
  The [[French]] term ''[[parole]]'' presents considerable difficulty to the [[English]] translator because it does not correspond to any one [[English] In some contexts it corresponds to the [[English]] term "[[speech]]," and in [[others]] is best translated as "[[w
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• Sinthome
  The term [[sinthome]] is, as [[Lacan]] points out, an archaic way of writing wh ...vious [[seminar]]'s focus on the [[borromean knot]], and an exploration of the writings of [[James Joyce]].
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• Signifier
  [[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|right|thumb|Saussurean algorithm|The Saussurean algorithm]] [[Lacan]] takes the term "[[signifier]]" from the [[work]] of [[Ferdinand de Saussure]].
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• Signifying Chain
  ...desire]] is expressed through the associative and [[combinatory]] links of the signifier and is repeated in a kind of succession that sets up a chain reac ...cious signifiers are woven together through [[metonymy]] and [[metaphor]], the two functions that generate signifieds.
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• Topology
  "[[Topology]]" is a branch of [[mathematics]] which deals with the properties of [[figures]] in [[topology|space]] where are preserved under a The [[notion]] of [[topology|space]] in [[topology]] is one of [[topology|topol
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• Philosophy
  ...or equating the [[psyche]] with [[consciousness]] and thus excluding the [[unconscious]] on purely ''a priori'' grounds,<ref>{{F}} 1925e [1924]: [[SE]] XIX, 216-1 ...ll]] of philosophical references; indeed, this is often regarded as one of the features that distinguishes [[Lacan]] from other [[psychoanalytic]] thinker
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• Quaternary
  ...s a predominance of triadic schemes in his [[work]], Lacan also insists on the importance of fourfold schemes: ...as, since the introduction of the [[unconscious]], always been required in the con- struction of a [[subjective]] ordering.<ref>{{Ec}} p. 774</ref></block
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• Resistance
  [[Freud]] first used the term "[[resistance]]" to designate the unwillingness to [[recall]] [[repressed]] [[memories]] to [[consciousness]] ...tion]], the term soon came to denote all those obstacles that arise during the [[treatment]] and interrupt its [[progress]]:
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• Sign
  [[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|thumb|200px|right|The Saussurean Sign]] According to [[Saussure]], the [[sign]] is the basic unit of [[language]]
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• Privation
  ===Lack in the Real of a Symbolic Object=== ...n]] is defined as a [[lack]] in the [[real]] of a [[symbolic]] [[object]] (the [[symbolic]] [[phallus]]).
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• Psychoanalysis
  ...[mental]] [[processes]] that are otherwise inaccessible because they are [[unconscious]]; # a therapeutic method for the treatment of [[neurotic]] disorders; and
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• Schema L
  The various "[[schemata]]" that begin to appear in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] in the 1950s are all attempts to [[formalize]] by means of [[diagrams]] certain as The [[schemata]] all consist of a [[number]] of points connected by a number of
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• Science
  Both [[Freud]] and [[Lacan]] use the term "[[science]]" in the [[singular]], thus implying that there is a specific [[unified]], homogeneo ...ng to [[Lacan]], in the seventeenth century <ref>{{Ec}} p. 857</ref>, with the inauguration of modern physics.<ref>{{Ec}} p. 855</ref>.
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