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==Nature =Languages and LanguageCodes===The basis of this distinction is [[Jacques Lacanlanguage]] posits a distinction between ; [[human]]s and other have [[language]], whereas [[animal]]s, the basis of which is merely have [[languagecode]]s.<ref>{{S1}} p.223</ref>

===Symbolic and Imaginary===The consequence of this fundamental [[Humandifference]]s have is that [[languagebiology|animal psychology]] is entirely dominated by the [[imaginary]], whereas [[animalhuman]] [[psychology]] is complicated by the additional [[dimension]]s merely have of the [[codesymbolic]]s.

As a result, ===Double Sense of the Term===Within the context of this bindary opposition between [[human]] [[being]]s and other [[animal]] s, [[psychologyLacan]] is entirely dominated by uses the term "[[imaginarynature]], whereas " in a [[humancomplex]] [[psychologydouble]] is complicated by the additional dimension of the [[symbolicsense]].

==Nature and / CultureOpposition==On the one hand, he uses it to designate one term in the opposition, namely the [[nature|animal world]]. In this sense, [[Lacan]] adopts the traditional [[anthropology|anthropological]] opposition between [[nauturenature]] and [[culture]] ([[culture]] being, in [[Lacan]]ian [[terms]], the [[symbolic]] [[order]]).

==Incest Prohibition=Regulation of Kinship===Like [[Claude Levi-Strauss]] and other [[anthropology|anthropologists]], [[Lacan]] points to the [[prohibition]] of [[incest]] as the kernel of the [[law|legal]] [[structure]]] which differentiates [[culture]] from [[nature]].

<blockquote>"The primordial Law is therefore that which in regulating [[marriage ]] superimposes the kingdom of culture on that of a nature abandoned to the law of mating."<ref>{{E}} p.66</ref></blockquote>

===Paternal Function===The regulation of [[kinship]] by the [[incest]] [[taboo]] points to the fact that the [[Name-of-the-Father|paternal function]] is at the heart of the rift between [[human]]s and [[animal]]s. By inscribing a line of descent from [[male]] to [[male]] and thus ordering a series of generations, the [[Father]] marks the difference between the [[symbolic]] and the [[imaginary]].

By insribing a line of descent from ===Human and Animal Imaginary===In other [[words]], what is unique [[about]] [[human]] [[being]]s is not that in [[malehuman]] to [[malebeing]] and thus ordering a series of generations, s the [[Fatherimaginary]] [[order]] marks is distorted by the difference between added dimension of the [[symbolic]] . The [[imaginary]] is what [[animal]]s and [[human]] [[being]]s have in common, except that in [[human]] [[being]]s it is no longer a natural [[imaginary]]. Hence [[Lacan]] repudiates "the [[imaginarydoctrine]] of a discontinuity between animal psychology and human psychology which is far away from our [[thought]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.484</ref>

In ==Natural Order of Human Existence==On the other wordshand, what [[Lacan]] also uses the term "[[nature]]" to denote the [[idea]] that there is unique about a "[[humannature|natural order]] beings is not that " in [[human beings the ]] [[imaginaryexistence]] , an idea which [[orderLacan]] is distorted by calls the added dimension "great fantasy of ''nautra mater'', the [[symbolic]]very idea of nature."<ref>{{S1}} p.149</ref>

==Nature=Biological Basis of Human Behavior===There is not even a pure natural state at the beginning in This great [[fantasy]] of [[nature]] underlies modern [[psychology]], which the attempts to explain [[human]] [[subjectbehavior]] might by reference to [[existbiology|ethological categories]] before being caught up in the such as [[symbolicinstinct]] and [[orderadaptation]].

===Symbolic Alienation from Natural Order===[[Lacan]] uses is highly critical of all such attempts to explain the term 'phenomena in terms of [[nature]]' . He argues that they are based on a failure to denote recognize the importance of the idea that there is a 'natural [[symbolic order' in ]], which radically [[alienation|alienates]] [[human]] [[existencebeing]]s from the [[natural]] [[order]].

This great <blockquote>In the [[fantasyhuman]] of [[natureworld]] underlies , even "those [[modernsignification]] s that are closest to [[psychologyneed]], which attempts [[signification]]s that are relative to explain the most purely [[humanbiological]] insertion into a nutrittive and captivating [[behaviorenvironment]] by reference to , primordial [[ethologicalsignification]] categories such as s, are, in their sequence and in their very foundation, subject to the [[instinctlaw]] and s of the [[adaptationsignifier]].<ref>{{S3}} p.198</ref></blockquote>

===Mythical Pre-Linguistic State of Nature===[[Lacan]] thus argues that "the [[Freudian]] discovery teaches us that all natural [[harmony]] in man is highly critical of all such attempts to explain profoundly disconcerted."<ref>{{S3}} p.83</ref> There is not even a pure [[nature|natural state]] at the beginning in which the phenomena [[human]] [[subject]] might [[exist]] before being caught up in terms of the [[symbolic]] [[natureorder]].

He argues that they are based on a failure to recognize the importance of the [[symbolic order]], which radically [[alienation|alienates]] human beings from the [[natural]] [[order]]<blockquote>"The Law is there ''ab origine''."<ref>{{S3}} p.83</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>In the [[humanNeed]] world, even "those is never [[significationpresent]]s that are closest to in a pure [[needpre-oedipal phase|pre-linguistic state]], in the [[significationhuman]]s that are relative to the most purely [[biologicalbeing]] insertion into : such a nutrittive and captivating environment, primordial "[[significationmythical]]" [[linguistic|pre-linguistic]]s, are, in their sequence and in their very foundation, subject to the [[lawneed]]s of the can only be hypothesized after it has been articulated in [[signifierdemand]].<ref>{{S3}} p.198</ref></blockquote>

===Human Sexuality, Nature and Culture===The [[absence]] of a [[natural]] [[order]] in [[human]] [[existence]] can be seen most clearly in [[human]] [[sexuality]]. [[Freud]] and [[Lacan]] argued both argue that "[[human]] [[sexuality]] is entirely caught up in the [[Freudiancultural]] [[order]] discovery teaches us that all natural harmony in man is profoundly disconcerted."<ref>{{S3}} p.83</ref>

Such a '[[mythical]]' pre-[[linguistic]] [[need]] can only be hypothesized after it has been articulated in [[demand]]. ==Human Sexuality==Perversion====The [[absence]] of a [[natural]] [[order]] in [[human]] [[existence]] can be seen most clearly in human [[sexuality]]. [[Freud]] and [[Lacan]] both argue that [[human]] [[sexuality]] There is entirely caught up in the no such [[cultural]thing] [[order]]. There is no such thing, for the [[human]] being, as a ''[[nature|natural ]]'' [[sexual relationship]].  One consequence of this is that [[Perversionperversion]] cannot be defined by reference to a supposed [[natural]] or [[biological]] [[norm]] governing [[sexuality]].

{{See}}* [[Adaptation]]* [[Alienation]]* [[Biology]]||* [[lawCode]]* [[prohibitionCulture]]* [[biologyDrive]]||* [[Instinct]]* [[Language]]* [[Law]]||* [[Need]]* [[Perversion]]* [[Sexual relationship]]{{Also}}

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