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==Symbolic==
In his attempt to theorize the [[category]] of the [[symbolic]], [[Lacan]] adopts two basic approaches.
# The first approach is to describe it in [[terms]] borrowed from [[linguistics]], using a [[Saussure]]an-inspired [[model]] of [[language]] as a [[system]] of [[signifiers]].
# The second approach is to describe it in terms borrowed from [[mathematics]].
The two approaches are complementary, since both are attempts to describe [[formal]] systems with precise rules, and both demonstrate the [[power]] of the [[signifier]].
===History===Although there is a general shift in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]] from the [[linguistic]] approach which predominates in the 1950s to a [[mathematical]] approach which predominates in the 1970s, there are traces of the [[mathematical]] approach as early as the 1940s. The branches of [[mathematics]] (''which [[Lacan]] uses most are [[algebra]] and [[topology]], although there are also incursions into set [[theory]] and [[mathématiquesnumber]]'')theory.<ref>{{E}} pp. 316-18</ref>
==References==<blockquote>div style="font-size:11px" class="The root of the difficulty is that you can only introduce symols, mathematical or otherwise, by using everyday language, since you have, after all, to explain what you are going to do with them.references-small"><refreferences/>{{S1}} p.2</refdiv>