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==Jacques Lacan==
Whenever [[Lacan]] uses the term "[[discourse]]" (rather than, say, "[[speech]]") it is in order to stress the transindividual nature of [[language]], the fact that [[speech]] always implies another [[subject]], an interlocutor.
Thus the famous [[Lacan|Lacanian formula]], "the unconscious is the discourse of the Other" designates the [[unconscious]] as the effects on the [[subject]] of [[speech]] that is addressed to him from elsewhere; by another [[subject]] who has been forgotten, by another psychic locality (the other [[scene]]).
===Four Discourses===
In 1969, [[Lacan]] begins to use the term "[[discourse]]" in a slightly different way, though one that still carries with it the stress on [[intersubjectivity]].
In 1972, [[Lacan]] inscribes two arrows in the formulas isntead of one; one arrows (which [[Lacan]] labels "impossibility") goes from the agent to the other, and the other arrow (which is labelled "powerlessness") goes from production to truth.<ref>{{S20}} p.21</ref>
[[Image:Lacan-fourdiscourses.jpg|thumb|right|The four discourses]]
==See Also==* [[ImageSpeech]] ==References==<references/> [[Category:Terms]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan-fourdiscourses.jpg|thumb|right|The four discourses]][[Category:Dictionary]]
