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In the typology of signs devised by Charles S Perice, the North American semiotician, the index is a sign whih has an "existential relationship" to the object it represents.(The index is always spatially or temporally contiguous with the object).{{Top}}indice{{Bottom}}
Perice contrasts ==Charles Peirce====Sign==In the idnex swith typology of [[sign]]s devised by Charles S. [[Peirce]], the symbolNorth American semiotician, the [[index]] is a [[sign]] which, like Saussure's concept of has an "existential [[relationship]]" to the [[object]] it represents (i.e. the sign, [[index]] is characterized by the absence of all necessary connections between always spatially or temporally contiguous with the sign and its [[object]]).
For example==Symbol==Peirce contrasts the [[index]] with the [[symbol]], which, like [[Saussure]]'s [[concept]] of the [[sign]], smoke is an index characterized by the [[absence]] of fireall necessary connections between the [[sign]] and its [[object]].
In Lacan's discourseFor example, the term 'index' functions in opposition to the term smoke is an [[signifierindex]]of fire.
This opposition [[Lacan]] thus conceives the [[index]] as a "[[nature|natural]]" [[sign]], one in which there is a fixed, bi-univocal correspondence between index [[sign]] and [[object]] (unlike the [[signifier underpins the following distinctions in Lacan's work]], which has no fixed link with any one [[signified]]).
===The psychoanalytic This opposition between [[index]] and medical concepts of the symptom===Whereas in medicine, the symptom is regarded as an index of [[signifier]] underpins the disease, following distinctions in psychoanalysis the symptom is not an index but a signifier.<ref>{{E}} p[[Lacan]]'s [[work]].129</ref>
Hence ===The Psychoanalytic and Medical Concepts of the Symptom===Whereas in [[medicine]], the [[symptom]] is regarded as an [[index]] of the disease, in [[psychoanalysis there ]] the [[symptom]] is no one-to-one fixed link between pathological phenomena and the underlying structurenot an [[index]] but a [[signifier]].<ref>{{E}} p.129</ref>
===Codes (animal) Hence in [[psychoanalysis]] there is no one-to-one fixed link between pathological phenomena and language (human)===COdes are composed of indices, whereas language is composed of signifiersthe underlying [[structure]].
This explains why codes lack the most important feature of language: its potential for ambiguity ===Codes (Animal) and equivocation.Language (Human)=== The opposition between signifier and [[Code]]s are composed of [[index |indices]], whereas [[language]] is complicated by the existence composed of certain signifiers whch also function as indices; these are called [[shifterssignifier]]s. ==References==<references/>
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==Signifier==In [[Lacan thus conceives ]]'s [[discourse]], the term "[[index as a 'natural' sign, one ]]" functions in which there is a fixed, bi-univocal correspondence between sign and object (unlike opposition to the term [[signifier, which has no fixed link with any one signified)]].
This explains why [[code]]s [[lack]] the most important feature of [[language]]: its potential for ambiguity and equivocation.
The opposition between [[signifier]] and [[index]] is complicated by the [[existence]] of certain [[signifier]]s which also function as [[index|indices]]; these are called [[shifter]]s.
==See Also==
{{See}}* [[codeCode]]* [[Language]]||* [[Linguistics]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Sign]]* [[Signified]]||* [[Signifier]]* [[Structure]]||* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}}
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