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| − | == The Symbolic Order ==
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| − | According to [[Jacques Lacan]],
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| − | The [[symbolic order]] is characterized by a binary opposition between [[absence]] and [[presence]].<ref>{{S4}} p.67-8</ref>
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| − | [[Lacan]] asserts the mutual implication of [[absence]] and [[presence]] in the [[symbolic]] [[order]].
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| − | In the [[symbolic order]] "nothing exists except upon an assumed foundation of absence."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref>
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| − | [[Lacan]] argues that "there is no absence in the real. There is only absence if you suggest that there may be a presence there where there isn't one."<ref>{{S2}} p.313</ref>
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| − | As [[Roman Jakobson showed with his analysis ofphonemes, all linguistic phenomena may be netirely characterized in terms of the presence or absence of certain distinctive features.
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| − | == Fort-Da ==
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| − | According to [[Lacan]], the game of [[fort-da]], introduced by [[Freud]] in "[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle," represents the [[child]]'s entrance into the [[symbolic]] [[order]].
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| − | The phonemic opposition - "fort" and "da" - are "a pair of sounds modulated on presence and absence."<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref>
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| − | == Language ==
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| − | The [[symbol]] is used in the [[absence]] of the thing.
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| − | [[Lacan]] argues that the [[word]] is a "presence made of absence."<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref>
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| − | [[Absence]] has a positive [[existence]] in the [[symbolic]] as [[presence]].
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| − | [[Lacan]] argues that "the nothing" (''le rien'') is in itself an [[object]] (or '[[partial object]]').<ref>{{S4}} p.184-5</ref>
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| − | == Sexual Difference==
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| − | [[Sexual difference]] is apprehended by the [[child]] [[symbolic]]ally around the [[presence]] and [[absence]] of the [[phallus]].
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| − | ==See Also==
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| − | * [[symbolic]]
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| − | * [[presence]]
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| − | * [[object]]
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| − | * [[fort-da]]
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| − | * [[child]]
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| − | == References ==
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| − | <references/>
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| − | [[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
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| − | [[Category:Terms]]
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| − | [[Category:Concepts]]
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| − | [[Category:Dictionary]]
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| − | [[Category:Symbolic]]
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| − | [[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
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