The term '[[{{Top}}codes|code]]' derives from [[Roman Jakobson]]'s theory of [[communication]]. {{Bottom}}
=====Roman Jakobson=====[[JakobsonLacan]] presents his opposition 'borrows the term "[[code vs message' as an equivalent of ]]" from [[SaussureRoman Jakobson]]'s ''[[languetheory]]'' vs ''of [[parolecommunication]]''.
However, [[LacanJakobson]] draws presents his opposition "[[code]] vs [[message]]" as an important distinction between the concepts equivalent of [[languageSaussure]] and 's ''[[codelangue]]'' vs ''[[parole]]''.<ref>{{E}} p84</ref>
=====Jacques Lacan==========Code and Language=====However, [[Lacan]] draws an important [[Codedistinction]]s are between the province of [[animalconcepts]] of [[communicationlanguage]], not of and [[intersubjective communicationcode]]. <ref>{{E}} p. 84</ref>
[[Code]]s are the province of [[animal]] [[communication]], not of [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective]] [[communication]]. =====Index and Signifier=====Whereas the elements of a [[language]] are [[signifier]]s, the elements of a [[code]] are ''[[indices]]''.
The fundamental difference is that there is a fixed bi-univocal (one-to-one) relationship between an [[index]] and its [[referent]], whereas there is no such relationship between a [[signifier]] and a [[referent]] or between a [[signifier]] and a [[signified]].
=====Ambiguity and Equivocation=====Because of the bi-univocal relation of [[indices]] and [[referent]]s, [[code]]s [[lack ]] what [[Lacan]] regards as the fundamental feature of [[human]] [[language]]s: the potential for ambiguity and equivocation.<ref>{{L}} (1973b) "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|L'Étourdit]]", ''[[Scilicet]]'', 1973bno. 4, 1973. pp. 5-52</ref>
<ref>[[Lacan ]] is not always consistent in maintaining this opposition between [[code ]] and language. In the seminar of 1958-9, for example, when presenting the elementary cell of the [[graph of desirelanguage]], he designates one point as the code, which he also designates as the place of the Other and the battery of signifiers. In this case, it is clear that the term 'code' is being used in the same sense as the term 'language', namely, to designate the set of signifiers available to the subject.</ref>
==Message==In the [[Of Structure seminar]] of 1958-9, for example, when presenting the [[elementary cell]] of the [[graph of desire]], he designates one point as an Inmixing the [[code]], which he also designates as the [[place]] of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whateverthe [[Other]] and the battery of [[signifier]]s.
Somebody spent some time In this afternoon trying to convince me that it would surely not be a [[pleasurecase]] for an English-speaking audience to listen to my bad accent and , it is clear that for me to speak in [[English]] would constitute a risk for what one might call the transmission of my term "[[messagecode]]. Truly, for me it " is a great case of [[consciencebeing]], because to do otherwise would be absolutely contrary to my own concept of the [[message]]: of used in the same [[messagesense]] as I will explain it to you, of the term "[[linguisticlanguage]] [[message]]. Many people talk nowadays about messages everywhere, inside the organism a hormone is a message" namely, a beam of light to obtain teleguidance to a plane or from a satellite is a message, and so on; but the [[message]] in [[language]] is absolutely different. The message, our message, in all cases comes from the [[Other]] by which I understand "from designate the place set of the Other." It certainly is not the common [[little other|other]], the [[little other| othersignifier]] with a lower-case <i>o</i>, and this is why I have given a capital <i>O</i> as the initial letter s available to the [[Othersubject]] of whom I am now speaking.
==See Also==
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* [[Communication]]
* [[Index]]
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* [[Signified]]
* [[Signifier]]
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