Concepts

The Symbolic Order

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