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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 Symbols=====The [[Image:Lacan-fourdiscourseletters.jpg|thumb|250px|rightdiscourse|[[Algebraposition]]ic of the ''four'' [[symbol]]s from the in each [[Four Discoursesmatheme|algorithm]]is what distinguishes the [[discourse|four discourses]]from one another.

Each of the The [[discourse|four discourses]] is represented are distinguished from one another by an the [[mathemediscourse|algorithmpositions]], each of which contains these ''four '' [[algebraicsymbol]] s in each [[symbolmatheme|algorithm]]s.

Each of the [[discourse|four discourses]] is represented defined by an the [[mathemediscourse|algorithmposition]] of the ''four '' [[algebraicsymbol]] s in its [[symbolmatheme|algorithm]]s.

[[Lacan]] represents each The names of the [[discourse|four discourses]] by an '''[[matheme|algorithm]]four''': each [[mathemediscourse|algorithmpositions]] contains ''four'' [[algebraic]] '''[[symbol]]s'''are shown to the right.<ref>{{S20}} p.21</ref>

=====Four Symbols=====The '''dominant [[discourse|four discoursesposition]] correspond to ''four' is occupied by the [[master signifier]] ([[Image:SS1.gif]]), which represents the [[subject]] ('' 'S''') for another [[matheme|algorithmssignifier]] or, more precisely, for all other [[signifiers]]'''([[Image: each SS2.gif]]); however, in this [[mathemesignification|algorithmsignifying operation]] contains ''four'' there is always a [[algebraicsurplus]] ', namely, ''[[symbolobjet petit a]]s'''.

The '''[[discourse|positions]]''' of these ''four'' '''[[symbol]]s''' point is what distinguishes the [[discourse|four discourses]] from one anotherthat all attempts at totalization are doomed to failure.

What distinguishes The [[discourse]] of the [[discourse|four discoursesmaster]] from one another is "masks the '''[[discourse|positionsdivision]]''' of these four '''the [[symbolsubject]]s'''. "<ref>{{S17}} p. 118</ref>

The [[discourse|four discourses]] are distinguished from one another by also illustrates clearly the '''[[discourse|positionsstructure]]''' of these four '''the [[dialectic]] of the [symbol[master]] and the [[master|slave]]s'''.

=====Four PositionsDiscourse of the University=====Each [[Image:Unidis.jpg|thumb|right|[[Discourse]] of the [[University]]]]The [[discourse]] has ''four'' of the [[university]] is produced by a quarter turn of the [[discourse|positions]], which stand in a fixed relationship to one anotherof the [[master]] (anticlockwise).

There are ''four '' The dominant position is occupied by [[discourse|positionsknowledge]] in each (''[[discoursesavoir]], which stand in a fixed relationship to one another'').

There are ''four '' This illustrates the fact that behind all attempts to impart an apparently "neutral" [[discourse|positionsknowledge]] in to the [[matheme|algorithmsother]] can always be located an attempt at [[master]] y ([[master]]y of the [[discourse|four discoursesknowledge]], each and domination of which the [[other]] to whom this [[knowledge]] is designated by a different nameimparted).

=====Four NamesDiscourse of the Hysteric=====[[Image:Lacan-structurefourdiscoursesHysdis.jpg|thumb|250pxright|right[[Discourse]] of the [[Hysteria|Hysteric]]]]The structure [[discourse]] of the [[hysteric]] is also produced by a quarter turn of the four discourses[[discourse]]of the [[master]], but in a clockwise direction.

The first position (with It is not simply "that which each is uttered by a hysteric", but a certain kind of [[discourse|social bond]] starts) is called the in which any [[discourse|agentsubject]]may be inscribed.

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

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

The four position is called [[Psychoanalytic treatment]] involves "the [[structural]] introduction of the [[discourse]] of the '''[[hysteric]]''' by means of artificial [[conditions]]"; in other [[words]], the [[analyst]] "[[hysteria|truthhystericises]]" the [[patient]]'s [[discourse]].<ref>{{S17}} p.35</ref>

=====Discourse of the Analyst=====[[Image:Anadis.jpg|thumb|right|[[Discourse]] of the [[Analyst]]]]The names [[discourse]] of the [[analyst]] is produced by a quarter turn of the ''four'' [[discourse]] of the [[hysteric]] (in the same way as [[Freud]] developed [[psychoanalysis]] by giving an [[interpretation|positionsinterpretative]] are shown below.<ref>{{S20}} pturn to the [[discourse]] of his [[hysterical]] [[patient]]s). 21</ref>