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==Definition==
The [[French]] term ''[[gap|béance]]'' is an antiquated literary term which means a "large hole or opening."
It is also a [[scientific]] term used in medicine to denote the opening of the larynx.
The term is used in several ways in [[Lacan]]'s work.
In 1946, he speaks of an "interrogative gap" which opens up in [[madness]], when the [[subject]] is perplexed by the phenomenona which he experiences ([[hallucinations]], etc) -- In the early 1950s, the term comes to refer to the fundamental rupture between [[man]] and [[nature]], which is due to the fact that "in man, the imaginary relation has deviated, in so far as that is where the gap is produced whereby death makes itself felt."<ref>{{S2Ec}} ppp.210165-6</ref>
<blockquote>"One has to assume a certain biological gap in him [man], which I try to define when I talk to you about the mirror stage.... The human being has a special relation with his own image --a relation of gap, of alienating tension.<ref>{{S2}} p. 323</ref></blockquote>
==Imaginary==The function of the [[imaginary]] is precisely to fill this [[gap]], thus covering over the [[subject]]'s [[division]] and presenting an [[imaginary]] sense of [[fragmented body|unity ]] and [[lack|wholeness]].
=="Dehiscence"==
[[Lacan]] also uses the term "[[gap|dehiscence]]" in a way that makes it practically synonymous, in his [[discourse]], with the term "gap".
[[gap|Dehiscence]] is a botanical term which designates the bursting open of mature seed-pots; [[Lacan]] uses the term to refer to the [[split]] which is constitutive of the [[subject]]: there is "a vital dehiscence that is constitutive of man."<ref>{{E}} p.21</ref> This [[split]] is also the [[division]] between [[culture]] and [[nature]] which means that [[man]]'s relation to the latter "is altered by a certain dehiscence at the heart of the organism, a primordial Discord."<ref>{{E}} p.4</ref>
This [[split]] is also the [[division]] between [[culture]] and [[nature]] which means that [[man]]'s relation to the latter "is altered by a certain dehiscence at the heart of the organism, a primordial Discord."<ref>{{E}} p. 4</ref>
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Alienation]]
* [[Cause]]
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* [[Imaginary]]
* [[Mirror stage]]
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* [[Nature]]
* [[Split]]
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* [[Sexual relationship]]
* [[Subject]]
{{Also}}
==References==
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[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
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