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=====Spoken and Written Language==Materiality===In his ''When [[Saussure|Course in General LinguisticsLacan]]'', takes up [[Saussure]] privileges 's [[speech|spokenwork]] in the 1950s, he adapts it freely to his own purposes. He thus conceives of the [[languageletter]] above , not as a mere graphic representation of a sound, but as the [[writingmaterialism|writtenmaterial basis]] of [[language]], on the grounds itself.<blockquote>"By ''letter'' I designate that the former appears before the latter both in the [[time|historymaterial]] of support that [[human|humanityconcrete]] and in the life of the individualdiscourse borrows from language."<ref>{{E}} p.147</ref></blockquote>
The [[Writingletter]] is conceived of as thus connected with the [[real]], a mere secondhand representation [[materialism|material substrate]] that underpins the [[symbolic order]]. The [[concept]] of [[speechmaterialism|spokenmateriality]] implies, for [[languageLacan]], both the indivisibility and the [[signifieridea]] is conceived of as purely an acoustic image and not as a graphic one.<ref>locality; the [[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand deletter]]. (1916) ''is therefore "the essentially localized [[Saussure|Course in General Linguisticsstructure]]'', edof the signifier. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans. Wade Baskin, Glasgow: Collins Fontana"<ref>{{E}} p.153</ref>
=====Jacques Lacan==Meaning========Material Basis As an element of Language=====When the [[real]], the [[letter]] is [[meaning]]less in itself. [[Lacan]] takes up illustrates this by referring to ancient [[Egyptian hieroglyphics]], which were indecipherable to Europeans for so long. Until Champollion was able to decipher [[them]] on the basis of the Rosetta Stone, no one knew how to [[understand]] these enigmatic inscriptions, but it was nevertheless clear that they were organized into a signifying [[Saussuresystem]]'s work in .<ref>{{S1}} p. 244-5; {{E}} p. 160</ref> In the 1950ssame way, the [[signifier]] persists as a [[meaning]]less [[letter]] which makes the destiny of the [[subject]] and which he adapts it freely to his own purposesmust decipher.
===Repetition===[[Lacan]] illustrates this [[repetition]] by reference to [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s story ''[[The Purloined Letter]]''.<blockquoteref>Poe, Edgar Allan. 1844. "The [[Purloined Letter]],"By in ''Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'', New York: Pocket [[Library]], 1951.</ref> Playing on the [[double]]-meaning of the term "[[letter]]", [[Lacan]] presents [[Poe]]'s account of a written document (a [[letter]]) which passes through various hands as a [[metaphor]] for the [[signifier]] which circulates between various [[subject]]s, assigning a peculiar [[position]] to whoever is possessed by it.<ref>{{L}} 1955a. "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Le séminaire sur 'La lettre volée']]", in [[Jacques Lacan]], ''[[Écrits]]'', [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1966, pp. 11-61 ["[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter']]", trans. Jeffrey Mehlman, ''Yale [[French]] Studies' I designate ', 48 (1972): 38-72.</ref> It is in this paper that material support [[Lacan]] proposes that concrete discourse borrows from language"a letter always arrives at its destination."<ref>{{EEc}} p.14741</ref></blockquote>
=====Materiality==To the Letter===The It is because of the [[role]] of the [[letter]] is thus connected with in the [[unconscious]] that the [[analyst]] must focus not on the [[meaning]] or the [[signification]] of the [[realanalysand]]'s [[discourse]], a but purely on its [[formal]] properties; the [[materialism|material substrateanalyst]] that underpins must read the [[symbolic orderanalysand]]'s [[speech]] as if it were a [[text]], "taking it literally" (''prendre à la lettre'').
==See Also==
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* [[Language]]
* [[Materialism]]
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* [[Signifier]]
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* [[Speech]]
* [[Unconscious]]
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