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[[Death]] is constitutive of the [[symbolic]] [[order]], because the [[symbol]], by standing in place of the [[thing]] which it [[symbolization|symbolizes]], is equivalent to the [[death]] of that [[thing]]:

<blockquote>"The [[symbol]] is the murder of the [[thing]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 104</ref></blockquote>

It is only by virtue of the [[signifier]] that the [[subject]] has access to and can conceive of his own [[death]]:

The [[signifier]] also puts the [[subject]] beyond [[death]], because "the [[signifier]] already considers him [[dead]], by nature it immortalizes him."<ref>{{S3}} p. 180</ref>

[[Death]] in the [[symbolic order]] is related to the [[death]] of the [[Father]] (i.e. the murder of the [[father]] of the [[horde]] in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''<ref>{{F}} ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'', 1912-13. [[SE]] XIII, 1</ref>); the [[symbolic]] [[father]] is always a [[dead]] [[father]].