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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'.  [[LacanFreud]] was introduced to the work of [[German]] [[philosopher]] [[Hegel]] in a series of lectures given by [[Alexandre Kojève]] (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 Other]]' ('the [[Otherspeak]]').<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 the development of the symbol a in Lacan's work, see [[object petit a]]. ==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 and the ego interchangeably in [[schema l]].</ref> 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]]1930s, an [[otherness]] which transcends the [[illusory]] otherness of the [[imaginary]] because it cannot be assimilated through [[identification]]. when [[Lacan]] equates first begins to use the [[big Other]] with [[language]] and the [[law]]. Hence the [[big Other]] is inscribed in the [[symbolic]] [[order]]. Indeedterm, the [[big Other]] ''is'' the [[symbolic]] insofar as it is particularized for each [[subject]]. Thusnot very salient, 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 refers simply to "the [[Other]] as an[[other]] [[subjectpeople]]." is strictly secondary The term seems to the meaning of "the be borrowed from [[Other]] as [[symbolic]] [[orderHegel]]." "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 whose work [[OtherLacan]] as was introduced in a series of lectures given by [[subjectAlexandre Kojève]] in a secondary sense, in the sense that a [[subject]] may occupy this position and thereby 'embody' the [[Other]] for an[[other]] [[subject]].<ref>{{S8}} p1933-9.202</ref> ==The Unconscious is the Discourse of the Other==

==Little and Big Other==In 1955, [[Lacan]] argues 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 designated '''A''' (upper [[case]], for [[French]] ''[[Other|Autre]]'') and the [[little other]] is designated <i>'''a'''</i> (lower case italicized, for [[French]] ''[[Other|autre]]''). [[Lacan]] asserts that an [[speechawareness]] originates not in of this distinction is fundamental to [[analytic treatment|analytic practice]]: the [[egoanalyst]] or even in must be "thoroughly imbued" with the [[subjectdifference]] but 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>

===Little other (autre, "''a''") ===The [[little other]] is the [[other]] who is not, in fact, [[other]], but a [[Lacanreflection]] argues that or [[speechprojection]] and of the [[languageego]] are beyond .<ref>This is why the symbol a can [[consciousrepresent]] the little other and the ego interchangeably in [[schema L]] control. </ref> It is simultaneously the [[Speechcounterpart]] and the [[languagespecular image]] come from an. The [[little other]] place, is inscribed in the [[imaginary]] [[order]] as both the [[outsidecounterpart]] and the [[consciousnessspecular image]].

Hence===Big Other (Autre, "A")===The [[big Other]] designates radical [[alterity]], an [[otherness]] which transcends the [[illusory]] [[other|otherness]] of the [[imaginary]] because it cannot be assimilated through [[identification]]. [[Lacan]] equates the [[big Other]] with [[language]] and the [[law]], and hence the [[unconsciousbig Other]] is inscribed in the [[discoursesymbolic]] of [[order]]. Indeed, the [[big Other]] ''is'' the [[symbolic]] insofar as it is particularized for each [[subject]]."<ref>{{Ec}} 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]].16</ref>

==Sigmund FreudSpeech and the Other==In conceiving However, the [[meaning]] of "the [[Other]] as a another [[placesubject]], " is strictly secondary to the meaning of "the [[LacanOther]] alludes to as [[Freudsymbolic]]'s concept of [[psychical localityorder]]." "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 [[unconsciousOther]] is described as a [[subject]] in a secondary [[sense]], in the sense that a [[subject]] may occupy this position and thereby "embody"the [[otherOther]] for another [[scenesubject]]."<ref>{{S8}} p. 202</ref>

==(M)other=Discourse of the Other===It 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 [[motherunconscious]] who first occupies is the [[positiondiscourse]] of the [[big Other]] for ."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 16</ref> In conceiving of the [[childOther]] as a [[place]], because it is she who receives the [[childLacan]] alludes to [[Freud]]'s primitive cries and [[retroactivelyconcept]] of [[psychical locality]], in which the [[unconscious]] sanctions them is described as a particular "the [[messageother]]. (see [[punctuationscene]]). "

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]]''.

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 [[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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