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[[semblance]] ([[French]]: ''[[{{Top}}semblant]]'') {{Bottom}}

Running throughout [[Lacan]]'s work is the idea that appearances are deceptive, an idea that is closely connected to the classical philosophical opposition between [[appearance]] and [[essence]].<ref>{{S11}} p.103ff103</ref>

Similarly, in [[psychoanalysis]], as in [[science]], "only he who escapes from false appearances can achieve truth."<ref>{{S7}} p.310</ref>

For the [[natural]] [[scientist]], the [[false]] [[appearance]] lacks [[lack]]s the dimension of deliberate [[deception]], which is why [[Lacan]] states that the axiom of [[natural science]] is the [[belief]] in an honest, non-deceitful [[God]].<ref>{{S3}} p.64</ref>

It appears as early as 1957,<ref>e.g. {{Ec}} p.435; {{S4}} p.207</ref> and is used several times in the [[seminar]] of 1964,<ref>{{S11}} p.107</ref> but it is not until the early 1970s that the term comes to occupy an important place in [[Lacan]]'s [[theoretical]] [[vocabulary]].

Later on, [[Lacan]] uses the term to characterise characterize general features of the [[symbolic]] order and its relations to the [[imaginary]] and the [[real]].

In the [[seminar]] of 1972-3, [[Encore]], [[Lacan]] goes on to state that ''[[objet petit a]]'' is a "semblance of being,"<ref>{{S20}} p.84</ref> that [[love]] is addressed to a [[semblance]],<ref>{{S20}} p.85</ref> and that ''[[jouissance]]'' is only evoked or elaborated on the basis of a [[semblance]].<ref>{{S20}} p.85</ref>

 * [[RealityDeception]]

* ''[[TruthJouissance]]'' * [[Moebius strip]]

 * [[DeceptionTruth]]* [[Moebius Strip]]* ''[[Jouissance]]''