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  The '"[[other]]'/'" is perhaps the most [[Othercomplex]]' (term in [[FrenchLacan]]: ''s [[autrework]]''/''[[Autre]]'' is perhaps the most complex term in Lacan's work.   {{Top}}[[Freudautre]] uses the term '[[other]]' to speak of ', 'der Andere'' ('the other person') and ''das Andere'' ('otherness').[[Autre{{Bottom}}

When Lacan first begins to use the term, in the 1930s, it is not very salient, and refers simply to 'other people'.  [[Lacan]] was introduced to the work of [[German]] [[philosopher]] [[Hegel]] in a series of lectures given by [[Alexandre KojèveFreud]] (at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes) in 1933-9. Lacan seems to have borrowed uses the term from Hegel ==Little Other versus the Big Other== In 1955, [[Lacan]] draws a distinction between the '"[[little other]]' and the '" to [[big Otherspeak]]' ('the [[Other]]').<ref>{{S2}} Chapter 19</ref> This distinction remains central throughout the rest of his work. [[Lacan]] asserts that an awareness of this distinction is fundamental to analytic practice: the analyst must be 'thoroughly imbued' with the difference between A and a,<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>  ===Algebra=== In [[Lacanian]] [[algebra]], the [[big Other|der Andere]] is designated with an upper-case '''A''' ([[French]] for ''[[Autre]]'') and "the [[little other]] is designated with a lower-case person") and italicized <i>'''a'''</i> ([[FrenchOther|das Andere]] for ''autre''("otherness"). For a more detailed discussion of , but in the development of the symbol a in Lacan's work1930s, see when [[object petit aLacan]]. ==The little other== The [[little other]] is first begins to use the other who term, it is notvery salient, in fact, [[other]], but a [[reflection]] or [[projection]] of the [[ego]].<ref>This is why the symbol a can represent the little other and the ego interchangeably in [[schema l]].</ref> The [[little refers simply to "other]] is inscribed in the [[imaginary]] [[order]] as both the [[counterpart]] and the [[specular imagepeople]]. ==The big Other== " The term seems to be borrowed from [[big Other]] designates radical [[alterityHegel]], an to whose work [[othernessLacan]] which transcends the [[illusory]] otherness was introduced in a series of the lectures given by [[imaginaryAlexandre Kojève]] because it cannot be assimilated through [[identification]]. [[Lacan]] equates the [[big Other]] with [[language]] and the [[law]]. Hence the [[big Other]] is inscribed in the [[symbolic]] [[order]]. Indeed, the [[big Other]] ''is'' the [[symbolic]] insofar as it is particularized for each [[subject]]1933-9.

Thus==Little and 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> Thereafter, in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]], the [[big Other]] is both andesignated '''A''' (upper [[othercase]] , for [[subjectFrench]] in its radical ''[[alterityOther|Autre]] '') and unassimilable uniqueness and also the [[symboliclittle other]] is designated <i>'''a'''</i> (lower case italicized, for [[orderFrench]] which mediates ''[[Other|autre]]''). [[Lacan]] asserts that an [[awareness]] of this distinction is fundamental to [[analytic treatment|analytic practice]]: the relationship [[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 [[subjectother]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 454</ref>

However===Little other (autre, "''a''") ===The [[little other]] is the meaning [[other]] who is not, in fact, [[other]], but a [[reflection]] or [[projection]] of "the [[Otherego]] as an.<ref>This is why the symbol a can [[represent]] the little otherand the ego interchangeably in [[schema L]].</ref> It is simultaneously the [[counterpart]] and the [[specular image]] . The [[subjectlittle other]]" is strictly secondary to the meaning of "inscribed in the [[Otherimaginary]] [[order]] as both the [[symboliccounterpart]] and the [[orderspecular image]]."

===Big Other (Autre, "A")===The [[big Other must first ]] designates radical [[alterity]], an [[otherness]] which transcends the [[illusory]] [[other|otherness]] of all the [[imaginary]] because it cannot be considered a locusassimilated through [[identification]]. [[Lacan]] equates the [[big Other]] with [[language]] and the [[law]], and hence the locus [[big Other]] is inscribed in which speech the [[symbolic]] [[order]]. Indeed, the [[big Other]] ''is'' the [[symbolic]] insofar as it is constitutedparticularized for each [[subject]]."<ref>{{S3}} pThus, the [[Other]] is both another [[subject]] in its radical [[alterity]] and unassimilable uniqueness and also the [[symbolic]] [[order]] which mediates the [[relationship]] with that [[subject]].274</ref>

==Speech and the Other==However, the [[meaning]] of "the [[Other]] as another [[subject]]" is strictly secondary to the meaning of "the [[Other]] as [[symbolic]] [[order]]." "The Other must first of all be considered a locus, the locus in which speech is constituted."<ref>{{S3}} p. 274</ref> It is thus only possible to speak of the [[Other]] as a [[subject]] in a secondary [[sense]], in the sense that a [[subject]] may occupy this position and thereby '"embody' " the [[Other]] for an[[other]] another [[subject]].<ref>{{S8}} p.202</ref>

==The Unconscious is the =Discourse of the Other=== [[Lacan]] argues In arguing that [[speech]] originates not in the [[ego]] or even in the [[subject]] but in the [[Other]]. , [[Lacan]] argues is stressing that [[speech]] and [[language]] are beyond [[conscious]] control. [[Speech]] and [[languagecontrol]] ; they come from an[[other]] place, [[outside]] [[consciousness]]. Hence, and hence "the [[unconscious]] is the [[discourse]] of the [[Other]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.16</ref> ==Sigmund Freud==In conceiving of the [[Other]] as a [[place]], [[Lacan]] alludes to [[Freud]]'s [[concept ]] of [[psychical locality]], in which the [[unconscious]] is described as "the [[other]] [[scene]]." ==(M)other==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]]. (see [[punctuation]]).

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 other [[words]], there is always a [[signifier]] [[missing ]] from the treasury of [[signifier]]s constituted by the [[Other]].  The [[mythical]] complete [[Other]] (written '''A''' in [[Lacan]]ian [[algebra]]) does not [[exist]].  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' (S20, 40).  The [[Other]] [[sex]] is always [[Woman]], for both [[male]] and [[female]] [[subjects]].

===The Other Sex===The Other is also "the Other sex."<ref>{{S20}} p. 40</ref> The [[Other]] [[sex]] is always [[woman]], for both [[male]] and [[female]] [[subjects]]. <blockquote>"[[Man]] here [[acts ]] as the relay whereby the [[Womanwoman]] becomes this Other for herself as she is this [[Other]] for him."<ref>{{Ec}} p.732</ref></blockquote>

* [[Big OtherLack]]||

* [[Ego]]* [[Counterpart]]* [[Specular image]]* [[Imaginary]]* [[Object petit a]]* [[MotherUnconscious]]

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