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The term "[[discourse]]" is used by [[Lacan]] to emphasize the ''[[intersubjectivity|transindividual nature]]'' [[nature]] of '''[[language]]''', the fact that '''[[speech]]''' always implies another [[subjectanother]], an interlocutor. The '''[[unconscious]]''' is the "[[discourse|discourse of the Other]]", or the effect on the [[subject]] of [[speech]] that is addressed to that [[subject]] from elsewhere, by another [[subject]] (who has been [[memory|forgotten]]), by an [[scene|other scene]] or [[scene|psychic locality]]interlocutor.

He [[identifies ]] ''four'' types of [[discourse|social bonds]], four articulations of the [[symbolic order|symbolic network]] which regulates [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective relations]]. 

=====Four SymbolsAlgorithms=====[[Image:Lacan-fourdiscourselettersLetdis.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Algebra]]ic [[symbol]]s from the [[Four Discourses]]]] Each of the [[discourse|four discourses]] is represented by an [[matheme|algorithm]] which contains ''four'' [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s. The names of these ''four'' [[symbol]]s are shown to the [[right]]. The ''four'' [[symbol]]s correspond to ''four'' different [[discourse|positions]] in each [[matheme|algorithm]] of the [[discourse|four discourses]]. Each [[matheme|algorithm]] of the [[discourse|four discourses]] has ''four'' different [[discourse|positions]] with which the ''four'' [[symbol]]s correspond. [[Image:Discourse-Structure.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The structure of the four discourses]] The [[discourse|position]] of the ''four'' [[symbol]]s in each [[matheme|algorithm]] is what distinguishes the [[discourse|four discourses]] from one another. The [[discourse|four discourses]] are distinguished from one another by the [[discourse|positions]] of these ''four'' [[symbol]]s in each [[matheme|algorithm]]. Each of the [[discourse|four discourses]] is defined by the [[discourse|position]] of the ''four'' [[symbol]]s in its [[matheme|algorithm]]. The names of the ''four'' [[discourse|positions]] are shown to the right.<ref>{{S20}} p. 21</ref>

Each =====Discourse of the Master=====[[four discoursesImage:Madis.jpg|thumb|right|[[Discourse]] of the [[Master]]]]The [[discourse]] of the [[master]] is represented by an the basic [[matheme|algorithmdiscourse]], each of from which contains four the other [[algebraicthree]] [[symboldiscourse]]sare derived.

Each of the The '''dominant [[four discoursesposition]] ''' is represented occupied by an the [[master signifier]] ([[Image:SS1.gif]]), which represents the [[subject]] ('''S''') for another [[signifier]] or, more precisely, for all other [[signifiers]] ([[mathemeImage:SS2.gif]]); however, in this [[signification|algorithmsignifying operation]] of four there is always a [[algebraicsurplus]] , namely, ''[[symbolobjet petit a]]s''.

[[Lacan]] represents each of the [[four discourses]] by an '''[[matheme|algorithm]]''': each [[matheme|algorithm]] contains ''four'' [[algebraic]] '''[[symbol]]s'''The point is that all attempts at totalization are doomed to failure.

The '''[[discourse|positions]]''' of these ''four'' '''the [[symbolmaster]]s''' is what distinguishes "masks the [[discourse|four discoursesdivision]] of the [[subject]] from one another."<ref>{{S17}} p. 118</ref>

What distinguishes The [[discourse]] also illustrates clearly the [[discourse|four discoursesstructure]] from one another is of the '''[[discourse|positionsdialectic]]''' of these four '''the [[master]] and the [[symbolmaster|slave]]s'''.

The [[master]] ([[Image:SS1.gif]]) is the [[discourse|four discoursesagent]] who puts the [[slave]] ([[Image:SS2.gif]]) to [[work] are distinguished from one another by ]; the 'result of this work is a [[surplus]] (''[[discourseobjet (petit) a|positionsa]]''' of these four ''') that the [[symbolmaster]]s'''attempts to appropriate.

Each This illustrates the fact that behind all attempts to impart an apparently "neutral" [[knowledge]] to the [[other]] can always be located an attempt at [[master]]y ([[discoursemaster]] has ''four'' y of [[discourse|positionsknowledge]], which stand in a fixed relationship and domination of the [[other]] to one anotherwhom this [[knowledge]] is imparted).

There are ''four '' The [[discourse|positions]] of the [[university]] represents the [[hegemony]] of [[knowledge]], particularly [[visible]] in each [[discoursemodernity]], which stand in a fixed relationship to one anotherthe [[form]] of the hegemony of [[science]].

=====Discourse of the Hysteric=====[[Image:Hysdis.jpg|thumb|right|[[Discourse]] of the [[Hysteria|Hysteric]]]]The first position (with which each [[discourse]] starts) of the [[hysteric]] is called also produced by a quarter turn of the [[discourse|agent]]of the [[master]], but in a clockwise direction.

The second position It is called the not simply "that which is uttered by a hysteric", but a certain kind of [[discourse|othersocial bond]] in which any [[subject]]may be inscribed.

The third dominant position is called occupied by the [[discoursesplit|productdivided]] [[subject]], the [[symptom]].

The four position This [[discourse]] is called that which points the way towards [[discourse|truthknowledge]].<ref>{{S17}} p. 23</ref>