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=====Roman Jakobson=====
[[Lacan]] borrows the term "[[code]]" from [[Roman Jakobson]]'s [[theory ]] of [[communication]].
[[Jakobson]] presents his opposition "[[code]] vs [[message]]" as an equivalent of [[Saussure]]'s ''[[langue]]'' vs ''[[parole]]''.
=====Jacques Lacan=====
=====Code and Language=====
However, [[Lacan]] draws an important [[distinction ]] between the [[concepts ]] of [[language]] and [[code]].<ref>{{E}} p. 84</ref>
[[Code]]s are the province of [[animal]] [[communication]], not of [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective]] [[communication]].
=====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]]'', no. 4, 1973. pp. 5-52</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 desire]], he designates one point as the [[code]], which he also designates as the [[place ]] of the [[Other]] and the battery of [[signifier]]s.
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 [[signifier]]s available to the [[subject]].
==See Also==
