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In this context, the [[bar]] is the line that separates the [[signifier]] from the [[signified]] (in the [[Saussurean algorithm]]), and stands for the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]] which is only crossed in [[metaphor]].
==The Barred Subject==
Not long after the 1957 paper in which the term first appears, in the [[seminar]] of 1957-8, [[Lacan]] goes on to use the [[bar]] to strike through his [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s '''S''' and '''A''' in a manner reminiscent of [[Heidegger]]'s practice of crossing out the word "[[being]]."<ref>[[Heidegger|Heidegger, Martin]]. (1956) ''The Question of Being'', trans. William Kluback and Jean T. WIlde, London: Vision, 1959.</ref>
== References ==
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{{Encore}} pp. 33-34
<blockquote>Anyway, between the two, '''S''' and ''s'', there is a bar, S/''s''.
[...]
The [[bar]], like everything involving what is written, is based only on the following - what is written is not to be understood.<BR>
That is why you are not obliged to understand my writings. If you don't understand them, so much the better - that will give you the opportunity to explain them.<BR>
It's the same with the [[bar]]. The [[bar]] is precisely the point at which, in every use of language, writing (''écrit'') may be produced. If, in [[Saussure]]'s work itself, S is above ''s'', that is, over the [[bar]], it is because the effects of the [[unconscious]] have no basis without this [[bar]] - that is what I was able to show you in "[[The Instance of the Letter]]," included in my ''[[Écrits]]'', in a way that is written (''qui s'écrit''), nothing more.<BR>
Indeed, were it not for this [[bar]] nothing about [[language]] could be explained by [[linguistics]]. Were it not for this bar above which there are signifiers that pass, you could not see that [[signifiers]] are injected into the [[signified]]</blockquote>
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