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{| align="right" style="line-height:2.0em;margin-leftwidth:10px100%;text-align:rightjustify;"|style="width:100%;border:0px solid #cccccc;background-color:#fcfcfcffffff;bordervertical-align:1px solid #aaatop" | [[French]]: ''[[graphe du désir]] {|}  The width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5"[[graph of desire]]style=" is a [[topology|topographical representation]] text-align:justify;vertical-align:top;background- [[topology|schema]] or [[topologycolor:#ffffff"|model]] - of the [[structure]] of [[desire]]. The [[graph of desire]] is a conceptual tool from the [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic theory]] of [[Jacques Lacan]]style="text-align:justify;color:#000;line-height:2. The [[graph of desire]] is a [[topology5em;align:justify;"|topological representation]] of the [[structure]] of [[desire]]. The [[graph of desire]] is a [[topology|topological]] [[matheme|schemamodel]] of the [[structure]] of the constitution of the [[human]] [[subject]] and its [[desire]].

The [[graph of desireJacques Lacan]] was first porposed in a 1960 colloquium, and was later published in began to develop the ''[[Ecrits]]''. The [[graph of desire]] is a schema, or model, that [[Jacques Lacan]] began developing in his [[seminar]] on [[Seminar V|The Formations of the Unconscious]].<ref>{{LB}} [[Seminar V|The Formations of the Unconscious]]. [[{{Y}}|1957]]-[[{{Y}}|58]]</ref> The [[graph of desireseminar]] was gradually developed by [[Lacan]] in the course of two successive [[seminars]]: , ''[[Seminar V|The Formations of the UnconsciousLes formations de l'inconscient]] and ''.<ref>[[Seminar VIJacques Lacan|Desire and its InterpretationLacan, Jacques]]. ''[[LacanSeminar V|Les formations de l'inconscient]] first develops the [[graph of desire]] in ''. [[Seminar V|the seminar The Formations of 1957-8]] in order to illustrate the [[psychoanalytic theory]] of [[jokeUnconscious]]s.<ref>[[Freud{{Y}}|Freud, Sigmund1957]]. ''-[[Works of Sigmund Freud{{Y}}|Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious58]]," 1905. [[SE]] VIII.</ref>  The [[graph of desire|graph]] reappears in some of the following [[seminars]], but then all but disappears from [[Lacanseminar]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]]. He refers to the basic schema once again in "[[The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious]]." It achieved its definitive form in his essay "[[The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious]]."<ref>{{LB}} "[[The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious]]." 1960</ref> The [[graph of desire|graph]] appears in various forms, although the most well known [[form ]] of it appears in "[[The subversion Subversion of the subject Subject and the dialectic Dialectic of desire Desire in the Freudian unconsciousUnconscious]]."<ref>[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Subversion du sujet et dialectique du désir dans l'inconscient freudien]]." ''[[Écrits]]''. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1966. p.793-827. "[[The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]." [[Ecrits: A Selection]]. Trans. Alan [[Sheridan]]. [[Bruce Fink]]. [[London]]: Tavistock. 1977. New York: W. W. Norton. 2004. p.292-325</ref> ==Graph==It depends on ideas developed originally in Lacan's Schema R, a graph in which fundamental organizing sturctures of the human mind are shown in a schematic relationship to the registers which in turn structure human reality: the [[imaginary]], the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]]. The [[graph of desire]] is a 'flattened' representation of a [[signifying chain]] as it crosses a pathway [[Lacan]] called a vector of [[desire]. It appears as two curved lines which cross one another at two separate points. Each line has a symbolic meaning. ==Development==[[Lacan]] builds up the [[graph of desire]] in four stages. Its four successive stages represent the constitution of the [[human]] [[subject]] and his [[desire]]. The stages of the graph of desire are not meant to show any evolution or temporal development, since the graph always exists as a whole. Nevertheless, [[Lacan]] never intended to describe the [[biology|genetic]] [[development|stages]] of a [[biology|biological]] [[development]]. Rather, it represents the "[[time|logical moments]]" of the [[development|birth]] of a [[speech|speaking]] [[subject]].  

The [[double ]] intersection of these two lines illustrates the [[nature ]] of [[time|retroaction]]: the [[message]], at the point marked '''s(A)''' in the [[graph of desire|elementary cell]], is the ''[[point de capiton]]'' determined [[time|retroactively]] by the [[particular ]] [[punctuation]] given to it by the [[Other]], '''A'''.

The [[linguistic|prelinguistic]] [[mythical ]] [[subject]] of pure [[need]], indicated by the [[triangle]], must [[pass ]] through the defiles of the [[signifier]] which produces the [[divided]] [[subject]], '''$'''.

The intermediate stages of the [[graph of desire]] are not meant to show any [[progress|evolution]] or [[development|temporal development]], since the [[graph of desire|graph]] always [[exists ]] as a [[whole]]; they are simply pedagogical devices used by [[Lacan]] in [[order ]] to illustrate the [[structure]] of the [[graph of desire|complete graph]].<ref>{{E}} p.315</ref>

Rather, it represents the "[[logical ]] moments" of the [[birth ]] of a [[speaking]] [[subject]].

In the [[graph of desire|complete completed graph]] there are not one but two [[signifying chain]]s.

The [[structure]] is thus duplicated: the upper part of the [[graph]] is [[structured ]] exactly like the lower part.