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== The Symbolic Order ==According to [[Jacques Lacan]], the The [[symbolic]] [[order]] is characterized by a binary opposition between [[absence]] and [[absence|presence]].<ref>{{S4}} p.67-8</ref>

<blockquote>"In [[Lacan]] asserts the mutual implication of [[absencesymbolic]] and [[presenceorder]] in the nothing [[symbolicexists]] except upon an assumed foundation of absence. Nothing exists except insofar as it does not [[orderexist]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref></blockquote>

In ==Real==This is a basic [[difference]] between the [[symbolic]] and the [[orderreal]] "nothing exists except upon an assumed foundation of absence."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref>

[[Lacan]] argues that <blockquote>"there 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>

== Fort-Da Linguistics==According to As [[LacanRoman Jakobson]] showed with his [[analysis]], the game of [[fort-daphoneme]]s, introduced by all [[Freudlinguistic]] phenomena may be entirely characterized in "[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle," represents the [[childterms]]'s entrance into of the [[symbolicabsence|presence]] or [[orderabsence]]of certain distinctive features.

The phonemic opposition ==Fort/Da==[[Lacan]] sees the [[game]] of ''[[fort- "da|fort" and "!/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 "[[fort-da]]" game, the [[child]] throws a cotton reel out of its cot in order to [[symbolic|symbolize]] the [[absence]] and [[presence]] of the [[mother]]. [[Symbolic|Symbolization begins when the [[child]] gets its first [[sense]] that something could be [[missing]].-->== Language Word==The In the [[symbolic order]], [[absence]] has a [[symbolexistence|positive existence]] is used in the or [[absence|presence]] of the thing.

[[Lacan]] argues that <blockquote>"Through the [[word]] , which is already a "presence made of absence, absence itself comes to be named."<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref></blockquote>

[[AbsenceLacan]] has [[notes]] that the [[word]] is "a positive [[existenceabsence|presence]] made of [[absence]]" because:# the [[symbol]] is used in the [[symbolicabsence]] of the [[thing]] and# [[signifiers]] only exist insofar as they are opposed to [[other]] [[presencesignifiers]].<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref>

<!-- There is [[Lacanloss]] argues that "in the nothing" (word. [[Language]] can operate only by designating an [[object]] in its ''le rien[[absence]]'') is in itself an . [[Lacan]] argues that [[symbolization]] turns on the [[object]] (or as ''[[partial objectabsence]]')'.<ref>{{S4}} p.184 --5</ref>

== Sexual DifferencePresence==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> ==Phallus==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]].

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