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Although [[Lacan]] uses the [[terms]] "[[real]]," "[[symbolic]]" and "[[imaginary]]" from early on in his work, it is not until 1953 that he speaks of these as [[three]] "[[order]]s" or three "[[order|register]]s.") From that [[moment]] on they come to be the fundamental classification [[system]] around which all his theorizing turns. The [[imaginary]], the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]] thus comprise a basic This classification system (around which all [[Lacan]]'s theorizing turns) which system allows important distinctions to be drawn between [[concepts]] which, according to [[Lacan]], had previously been confused in [[psychoanalytic theory]].