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The term "[[existence]]" is employed by [[Lacan]] in various ways:
==Existence in the Symbolic=======No Prediscursive Reality=====This [[sense ]] of [[existence]] is to be [[understood ]] in the context of [[Freud]]'s [[discussion ]] of the "judgement of existence," by which the [[existence]] of an entity is affirmed prior to attributing any quality to it.
Only what is integrated in the [[symbolic]] [[order]] fully "[[exist]]s", since "there is no such thing as a prediscursive [[reality]]."<ref>{{S20}} p.33</ref>
=====Absence and Presence in the Symbolic==========Differential Relations in the Symbolic==Non-Existence===It is important to note that, in the [[symbolic order]], "[[nothing ]] exists except on an assumed foundation of [[absence]]. Nothing exists except insofar as it does not exist."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref>
In other [[words]], everything that exists in the [[symbolic order]] only exists by virtue of its [[difference ]] to everything else.
It was [[Saussure]] who first pointed this out when he argued that in [[language]] there are no positive [[terms]], only differences.<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans. Wade Baskin, Glasgow: Collins Fontana.</ref>
==Existence in the Real==
In this sense, it is only that which is [[impossible]] to [[symbolize]] that [[exists]]: the [[impossible]] [[Thing]] at the heart of the [[subject]].
<blockquote>"There is in effect something radically unassimilable to the signifier. It's quite simply the subject's [[singular ]] existence."<ref>{{S3}} p.179</ref></blockquote>
This is the [[existence]] of the [[subject]] of the [[unconscious]], '''S''', which [[Lacan]] describes as an "ineffable, stupid [[existence]]."<ref>{{E}} p.194</ref>
=====Relation to the First Definition==Being===
This second sense of the term [[existence]] is exactly the opposite of [[existence]] in the first sense.
Whereas [[existence]] in the first sense is synonymous with [[Lacan]]'s use of the term [[being]], [[existence]] in the second sense is opposed to [[being]].
[[Lacan]] also speaks of the "[[existence|ex-sistence]] (''[[existence|Entstellung]]'') of desire in the dream,"<ref>{{E}} p.264</ref> since the [[dream]] cannot [[represent ]] [[desire]] except by distorting it.
==See Also==
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* [[Absence]]
* [[Being]]
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* ''[[Extimacy]]''
* [[Language]]
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* [[Unconscious]]
* [[Woman]]
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==References==
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