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[[Jacques Lacan]] posits a distinction between human beings and other animals, that is, between 'human society' and 'animal society'.<ref>S1 p.223</ref>
The basis of this distinction is [[language]]; humans have [[language]], whereas animals merely have [[codescode]]s.
As a result, animal psychology is entirely dominated by the imaginary, whereas human psychology is complicated by the additional dimension of the [[symbolic]].
[[Lacan]] adopts the traditional anthropological opposition between [[nauturenature]] and [[culture]] (culture being, in Lacanian terms, the [[symbolic]] [[order]]).
Like [[Claude Levi-Strauss]] and other 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>
