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:Rather than being understood in an intuitive way, the [[algebraic]] [[symbols]] are to be used, manipulated and read in various different ways.<ref>{{E}} p.313</ref>
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The [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s used by [[Lacan]], which appear principally in the [[matheme]]s, [[schema l]] and the [[graph of desire]], are listed below, together with their most common [[meaning]].
However, it is important to remember that the [[symbol]]s do not always refer to the same concept throughout [[Lacan]]'s work, but are used in different ways as his work develops.
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The most important example of such a shift in meaning is the use of the symbol ''a'' which is used in radically different ways in the 1950s and in the 1960s.
Even other [[symbol]]s which are relatively stable in [[meaning]] are occasionally used in very different ways.
Therefore some caution should be exercised when referring to the following list of equivalences.
