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==Symbolic==
The [[symbolic order]] is characterized by a binary opposition between [[absence]] and '''[[presence''']].<ref>{{S4}} p.67-8</ref>
In the [[symbolic order]] "nothing exists except upon an assumed foundation of [[absence]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref>
<blockquote>"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></blockquote>
==Absence and Presence==
==Presence and Absence==
== Fort-Da ==
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]].
[[Lacan]] argues that the [[word]] is a "presence made of absence."<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref>
[[Absence]] has a positive [[existence]] in the [[symbolic]] as [[presence]].
[[Lacan]] argues that "the nothing" (''le rien'') is in itself an [[object]] (or '[[partial object]]').<ref>{{S4}} p.184-5</ref>
==Word==
[[Lacan]] notes that the [[symbol]] -- or [[word]] -- is "a [[presence]] made of [[absence]]" because:
# the [[symbol]] is used in the [[absence]] of the [[thing]] and
# [[signifiers]] only exist insofar as they are opposed to other [[signifiers]].<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref>
==The Presence of Absence==
Because of the mutual implication of [[absence]] and [[presence]] in the [[symbolic order]], [[absence]] can be said to have an equally positive existence in the [[symbolic]] as [[presence]].
This is what allows [[Lacan]] to say that "the nothing" (''le rien'') is in itself an [[object]] (a [[partial object]]).<ref>{{S4}} p.184-5</ref>
==Phallus==
It is around the [[presence]] and [[absence]] of the [[phallus]] that [[sexual difference]] is [[symbolically]] apprehended by the [[development|child]].
[[Sexual difference]] is apprehended by the [[child]] [[symbolic]]ally around the [[presence]] and [[absence]] of the [[phallus]].
==See Also==
* [[Absencesymbolic]]* [[presence]]* [[object]]* [[fort-da]]* [[child]]
==References==
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