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"[[other]]"/"[[Other]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[autre]]''/''[[Autre]]'')  The "[[other]]" is perhaps the most [[complex ]] term in [[Lacan]]'s work.  [[Freudwork]] uses the term ". {{Top}}[[otherautre]]" to speak of ''[[Other|der Andere]]'' ("the other person") and , ''[[Other|das Andere]]'' ("otherness").Autre{{Bottom}}

When [[Freud]] uses the term "[[other]]" to [[speak]] of ''[[Other|der Andere]]'' ("the other person") and ''[[Other|das Andere]]'' ("otherness"), but in the 1930s, when [[Lacan]] first begins to use the term, in the 1930s, it is not very salient, and refers simply to "other [[people]]."The term seems to be borrowed from [[Hegel]], to whose work [[Lacan]] was introduced in a series of lectures given by [[Alexandre Kojève]] in 1933-9.

==Little and Big Other==In 1955, [[Lacan]] seems to have borrowed draws a [[distinction]] between the "[[little other]]" and the "[[big Other]]" ("the term from [[HegelOther]]"), to whose a distinction which remains central throughout the rest of his work .<ref>{{S2}} Chapter 19</ref> Thereafter, in [[Lacan]] was introduced in ian [[algebra]], the [[big Other]] is designated '''A''' (upper [[case]], for [[French]] ''[[Other|Autre]]'') and the [[little other]] is designated <i>'''a series '''</i> (lower case italicized, for [[French]] ''[[Other|autre]]''). [[Lacan]] asserts that an [[awareness]] of lectures given by this distinction is fundamental to [[analytic treatment|analytic practice]]: the [[Alexandre Kojèveanalyst]] 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 1933-9the place of [[Other]], and not of the [[other]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.454</ref>

===Little Other versus the Big Otherother (autre, "''a''") ===In 1955The [[little other]] is the [[other]] who is not, in fact, [[Lacanother]] draws , but a distinction between the "[[little otherreflection]]" and the "or [[big Otherprojection]]" ("of the [[Otherego]]"), a distinction which remains central throughout the rest of his work.<ref>{{S2}} Chapter 19This is why the symbol a can [[represent]] the little other and the ego interchangeably in [[schema L]].</ref>It is simultaneously the [[counterpart]] and the [[specular image]]. The [[little other]] is inscribed in the [[imaginary]] [[order]] as both the [[counterpart]] and the [[specular image]].

Thereafter===Big Other (Autre, "A")===The [[big Other]] designates radical [[alterity]], in an [[otherness]] which transcends the [[illusory]] [[other|otherness]] of the [[imaginary]] because it cannot be assimilated through [[identification]]. [[Lacan]]ian equates the [[big Other]] with [[language]] and the [[algebralaw]], and hence the [[big Other]] is designated inscribed in the [[symbolic]] [[order]]. Indeed, the [[big Other]] ''is'A''' (upper case, the [[symbolic]] insofar as it is particularized for each [[Frenchsubject]] ''. Thus, the [[Other|Autre]]'') is both another [[subject]] in its radical [[alterity]] and unassimilable uniqueness and also the [[little othersymbolic]] [[order]] is deisgnated <i>'''a'''</i> (lower case italicized, for which mediates the [[Frenchrelationship]] ''with that [[Other|autresubject]]'').

[[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> ===The little other=== The [[little other]] is the [[other]] who is not, in fact, [[other]], but a [[reflection]] or [[projection]] of the [[ego]].<ref>This is why the symbol a can represent the little other Speech and the ego interchangeably in [[schema l]].</ref> It is simultaneously the [[counterpart and the [[specular image]]. The [[little other]] is inscribed in the [[imaginary]] [[order]] as both the [[counterpart]] and the [[specular image]].   ===The big Other=== The [[big Other]] designates radical [[alterity]]However, an [[otherness]] which transcends the [[illusory]] [[other|othernessmeaning]] of the [[imaginary]] because it cannot be assimilated through [[identification]]. [[Lacan]] equates the [[big Other]] with [[language]] and the [[law]], and 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]]. Thus, the [[Other]] is both an[[other]] [[subject]] in its radical [[alterity]] and unassimilable uniqueness and also the [[symbolic]] [[order]] which mediates the relationship with that [[subject]]. --- However, the meaning of "the [[Other]] as an[[other]] 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== 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> 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]]."

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 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 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]]* [[Objet petit a]]* [[Mother]]* [[LackUnconscious]]

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