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This is reminiscent of [[Heidegger]]'s views on the impossibility of exiting "the house of language."
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[[Lacan]] rejects the very possibility of a metalinguistic dimension, denies the [[existence]] of any [[metalanguage]].
[[Lacan]] follows [[Heidegger]]'s view of [[language]] as a "house of being" of which it is impossible to step [[outside]].
=====Meaning Beyond Language=====This also appears similar to the [[structuralism|structuralist ]] theme of ''il n'y a rien hors du texte'' ('"there is nothing outside the text'"), but it is not the same; [[Lacan]] does not deny that there is a beyond of [[language]] (this beyond is the [[real]]), but he does argue that this beyond is not of a kind that could finally anchor [[signification|meaning]].
There is, in other words, no transcendental [[signified]], no way that [[language]] could "tell the truth about truth."<ref>{{Ec}} p.867-8</ref>
=====No Other of the Other=====
The same point is also expressed in the phrase; : <blockquote>"there There is no Other of the Other."<ref>{{E}} p.311</ref></blockquote>
If the [[Other]] is the guarantee of the coherence of the [[subject]]'s [[discourse]], then the falsity of this guarantee is revealed by the fact that the guarantor himself lacks such a guarantee.
==See Also==
* [[Discourse]]
* [[Interpretation]]
* [[Language]]
* [[Real]]
* [[Transference]]
==References==
