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"{{Top}}[[Absenceabsent]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[|absence]]''){{Bottom}}

The <blockquote>"In [[the symbolic order]] is characterized by a binary opposition between [[absenceorder]] and nothing [[presenceexists]].<ref>{{S4}} p.67-8</ref> <blockquote>In the symbolic order nothing exists except upon an assumed foundation of absence. Nothing exists except insofar as it does not [[exist]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref></blockquote>

This is a basic difference between the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]]. <blockquote>"There is no absence in [[The Real|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== As [[Roman Jakobson]] showed with his analysis of [[phoneme]]s, all [[linguistic]] phenomena may be entirely characterized in terms of the [[presence]] or [[absence]] of certain distinctive features.

==Linguistics==As [[LacanRoman Jakobson]] showed with his [[analysis]] sees the game of ''[[fort-da|fort!/da!phoneme]]''s, which all [[Freudlinguistic]] describes phenomena may be entirely characterized in ''[[Beyond terms]] of the Pleasure Principle[[absence|presence]]'', as a primitive phonemic opposition representing the child's entry into the or [[symbolic orderabsence]]of certain distinctive features.

==Fort/Da==[[Lacan]] sees the [[game]] of ''[[fort-da|fort!/da!]]'', which [[Freud]] describes in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]'', as a [[primitive]] phonemic opposition representing the child's entry into the [[symbolic order]]. The two sounds made by the [[development|child]], O/A, are "a pair of sounds modulated on [[presence]] and [[absence]], and these sounds are related "to the presence and absence of persons and things."<ref>{{E}} p.65, 109, n.46</ref>

 In the [[symbolic order]], [[absence]] has a positive [[existence|positive existence]] or [[absence|presence]].

[[Lacan]] [[notes ]] that the [[word]] is "a [[absence|presence]] made of [[absence]]" -- because:

# [[signifiers]] only exist insofar as they are opposed to [[other ]] [[signifiers]].<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref>

==Presence==Because of the mutual implication of [[absence]] and [[absence|presence]] in the [[symbolic order]], [[absence]] can be said to have an equally positive [[existence ]] in the [[symbolic]] as [[absence|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>

 It is around the [[absence|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 [[absence|presence]] and [[absence]] of the [[phallus]].

||* [[PresencePhallus]]* [[Sexual difference]]||* [[Signifier]]* [[Symbol]]||

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