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=====Jacques Lacan=====
The "[[other]]" is perhaps the most complex term in [[Lacan]]'s work.
=====Sigmund Freud=====
[[Freud]] uses the term "[[other]]" to speak of ''[[Other|der Andere]]'' ("the other person") and ''[[Other|das Andere]]'' ("otherness").
==Jacques Lacan===Development=====
When [[Lacan]] first begins to use the term, in the 1930s, it is not very salient, and refers simply to "other people."
[[Lacan]] seems to have borrowed the 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 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 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> ===The little other===
=====Little=====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 lL]].</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==Big=====
The [[big Other]] designates radical [[alterity]], an [[otherness]] which transcends the [[illusory]] [[other|otherness]] of the [[imaginary]] because it cannot be assimilated through [[identification]].
Indeed, the [[big Other]] ''is'' the [[symbolic]] insofar as it is particularized for each [[subject]].
Thus, the [[Other]] is both an[[other]] another [[subject]] in its radical [[alterity]] and unassimilable uniqueness and also the [[symbolic]] [[order]] which mediates the relationship with that [[subject]].
"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==
=====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]]."
=====Lack in the 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]].
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 [[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>
==See Also==
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* [[Bar]]
* [[Counterpart]]
* [[Ego]]
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* [[Imaginary]]
* [[Little other]]
* [[Big OtherLack]]||
* [[Language]]
* [[Law]]
* [[Mother]]
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* ''[[Objet (petit) a]]''
* [[Specular image]]
* [[Subject]]
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* [[Symbolic]]
* [[Ego]]* [[Counterpart]]* [[Specular image]]* [[Imaginary]]* [[Objet petit a]]* [[Mother]]* [[LackUnconscious]]
* [[Woman]]
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