Concepts

=The Supremacy of the Signifier

The exteriority, autonomy and displacement of the signifier; its defiles

• Exteriority: 64-66
• The defiles 65-66, 126-7, 147-8, 158, 255-256, 310-311

The signifying unit

• Symbol, letter, signifier: 61-65, 82, 104, 152-153, 183-4, 233-234, 263, 316-317
• Articulation: 126
• Materiality and locus of the letter: 87, 147-148

The structure: the symbolic, the imaginary, the real

• 64 (production of the real by the symbolic), 180-187 (hallucination), 191 (supremacy of the symbolic over the imaginary), 195 (supremacy of the symbolic over the real), 197 (intrusion of the imaginary in the real)

===The supremacy of the signifier over the signified

• 150-154, 160, 284, 289-290

The Defiles of the Signifier

The genesis of the ego:imaginary identification

• See The function of the ego
• Primordial symbolization and primary identification (the demand for love and the 'Fort-Da'): 103-104, 233-234, 255, 285-286
• The mirror-stage: 107, 42, 54-55, 137-9, 196, 209, 211-212
• Narcissism: 16-25, 123
• Aggressivity: 8-29, 42 (See The fragmented body)
• The superego: 21, 143, 255-256
• The ideal ego: 2, 307