({{Top}}instance]]'', InstaZ)[[Instanz{{Bottom}} =====Translator's Note=====[[Lacan]]'s use of the term '''"[[agency|instance''' ]]" goes well beyond [[Freud]]'s 'InstanZ'"[[Agency|Instanz]]". It represents, one might say, an exploitation of the [[linguistics|linguistic ]] possibilities of the [[French ]] equivalent of [[Freud]]'s [[German ]] term. In the [[absence ]] of any exact equivalent of [[Lacan]]'s [[French ]] term, one is thrown back to the term used by [[Freud]]'s [[English ]] translators, '"[[agency]]".' In [[Freud]], the reference is most often to the [[three ']] "[[agency|agencies' ]]" of the [[id]], [[ego ]] and [[superego]]. In [[Lacan]], one must bear in [[mind ]] the [[idea ]] of an '"[[agency|acting upon']]", even '"[[agency|insistence]],' " as in the title of the essay , "[[The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud|L'instance de la letter]]".<ref>{{L}} "[[The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud|L'instance de la lettredans l'inconscient ou la raison depuis Freud]]." ''[[Écrits]]''. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1966: 493-528 ["[[The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud|The agency of the letter in the unconscious or reason since Freud]]." Trans. [[Alan Sheridan]] ''[[Écrits: A Selection]]''. [[London]]: Tavistock, 1977; New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1977: 146-78]. </ref> =====See Also====={{See}}* [[Ego]]* [[Letter]]||* [[Id]]* [[Superego]]||* [[Unconscious]]{{Also}}=====References=====<references/> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Sigmund Freud]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]]
