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The '"[[other]]'"/'"[[Other]]' " ([[FrenchFr]]: . ''[[autre]]''/''[[Autre]]'' is perhaps the most complex term in Lacan's work.

==Jacques Lacan==When Lacan first begins to use [[Freud]] uses the term, in "[[other]]" to speak of ''[[Other|der Andere]]'' ("the 1930s, it is not very salient, other person") and refers simply to 'other people'[[Other|das Andere]]'' ("otherness").

==Jacques Lacan seems ==When [[Lacan]] first begins to have borrowed use the term from Hegel, in the 1930s, it is not very salient, and refers simply to "other people."

==Little Other versus [[Lacan]] seems to have borrowed the Big Other==term from [[Hegel]], to whose work [[Lacan]] was introduced in a series of lectures given by [[Alexandre Kojève]] in 1933-9.

===Little Other versus the Big Other===In 1955, [[Lacan]] draws a distinction between the '"[[little other]]' " and the '"[[big Other]]' " ('"the [[Other]]'"), a distinction which remains central throughout the rest of his work.<ref>{{S2}} Chapter 19</ref>

This distinction remains central throughout Thereafter, in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]], the rest of his work.[[big Other]] is designated '''A''' (upper case, for [[French]] ''[[Other|Autre]]'') and the [[little other]] is deisgnated <i>'''a'''</i> (lower case italicized, for [[French]] ''[[Other|autre]]'')

[[Lacan]] asserts that an awareness of this distinction is fundamental to [[analytic treatment|analytic practice]]: the [[analyst ]] must be '"thoroughly imbued' " with the difference between '''A ''' and <i>'''a'''</i>,<ref>{{E}} p.140</ref> so that he can situate himself in the place of [[Other]], and not of the [[other]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.454</ref>

In [[Lacanian]] [[algebra]], It is simultaneously the [[big Other]] is designated with an upper-case '''A''' ([[French]] for ''[[Autre]]'') counterpart and the [[little other]] is designated with a lower-case and italicized <i>'''a'''</i> ([[Frenchspecular image]] for ''autre'').

For a more detailed discussion of the development of the symbol a in Lacan's work, see [[object petit a]]. ==The little other== The [[little other]] is inscribed in the other who is not, in fact, [[otherimaginary]], but a [[reflectionorder]] or [[projection]] of as both the [[egocounterpart]].<ref>This is why the symbol a can represent the little other and the ego interchangeably in [[schema lspecular image]].</ref>

===The [[big Other]] designates radical [[alterity]], an [[otherness]] which transcends the [[illusory]] otherness of the [[imaginary]] because it cannot be assimilated through [[identification]].===

The [[Lacanbig Other]] designates radical [[alterity]], an [[otherness]] equates which transcends the [[big Otherillusory]] with [[languageother|otherness]] and of the [[lawimaginary]] because it cannot be assimilated through [[identification]].

Hence [[Lacan]] equates the [[big Other]] with [[language]] and the [[law]], and hence the [[big Other]] is inscribed in the [[symbolic]] [[order]].

[[Lacan]] argues In arguing that [[speech]] originates not in the [[ego]] or even in the [[subject]] but in the [[Other]], [[Lacan]] is stressing that [[speech]] and [[language]] are beyond [[conscious]] control; they come from an [[other]] place, [[outside]] [[consciousness]], and hence "the [[unconscious]] is the [[discourse]] of the [[Other]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.16</ref>

It is the [[mother]] who first occupies the [[position]] of the [[big Other]] for the [[child]], because it is she who receives the [[child]]'s primitive cries and [[retroactively]] sanctions them as a particular [[message]].  The [[Castration Complexcastration complex]] is formed when the [[child]] discovers that this [[Other]] is not [[complete]], that there is a [[lack]] in the [[Other]].

In 1957 [[Lacan]] illustrates this incomplete [[Other]] graphically by striking a [[bar]] through the [[symbol]] '''<strike>A</strike>'''.

Hence another name for the [[castrated]], incomplete [[Other]] is the ''[[barred]] [[Other]]''.

===The Other Sex===The Other is also '"the Other sex' (."<ref>{{S20, }} p.40). </ref>

The [[Other]] [[sex]] is always [[Womanwoman]], for both [[male]] and [[female]] [[subjects]].

<blockquote>"[[Man]] here acts as the relay whereby the [[Woman]] becomes this Other for herself as she is this [[Other]] for him."<ref>{{Ec}} p.732</ref></blockquote>