Fine design{{Top}}[[signe]]{{Bottom}} ===Ferdinand de Saussure===[[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|thumb|200px|right|The Saussurean Sign]]According to [[Saussure]], httpthe [[sign]] is the basic unit of [[language]] The [[sign]] is constituted by two elements://samsung# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-m300-free-ringt[[image]]). The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond.hi5 =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.com Samsung m300 free ringtones<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, %DDFerdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', http://treo-680-ringtones-freeed.hi5Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans.com treo 680 ringtones freeWade Baskin, 500, httpGlasgow://star-wars-ringtones-freCollins Fontana.hi5p.com star wars ringtones free preview114</ref> In this diagram, the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, the reciprocal implication of the two elements. 1176([[Saussure]] put the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] in an ellipse which indicates [[structure|structural unity]] of the [[sign]].) =====Jacques Lacan=====[[Lacan]] takes up the [[Saussure]]an concept of the [[sign]] in his "[[linguistic]] turn" in [[psychoanalysis]] during the 1950s, http://cingular-wireless-ringtbut [[subjects]] it to several modifications.hi5During the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.com Cingular wireless ringtones free phone =====Relation between Signifier and Signified=====Firstly, %-OOOwhereas [[Saussure]] posited the reciprocal implication between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] (they are as mutually interdependent as two sides of a sheet of paper), http://120t-motorola-free-ring[[Lacan]] argues that the relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] is extremely unstable.hi5 =====Primacy of the Signifier=====Secondly, [[Lacan]] asserts the [[existence]] of an order of "pure [[signifiers]]," where [[signifier]]s [[exist]] prior to [[signified]]s; this [[order]] of purely [[logical]] [[structure]] is the [[unconscious]].com 120t Motorola free ringtonesThis amounts to a [[destruction]] of [[Saussure]]'s concept of the [[sign]]; for [[Lacan]], a [[language]] is not composed of [[sign]]s but of [[signifier]]s. =====Saussurean algorithm=====[[Image:PPPSAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|right|thumb|Saussurean algorithm|The Saussurean algorithm]] To illustrate the contrast between his own views and those of [[Saussure]], [[Lacan]] replaces [[Saussure]]'s diagram of the [[sign]] with an [[Saussurean algorithm|algorithm]] which, [[Lacan]] argues, http://24should be attributed to [[Saussure]] -free-ringtonesand is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.hi5"<ref>{{E}} p.com 24 free ringtones149</ref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], 49665and the '''s''' for the [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] is thus inverted, showing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, http://evanescencewhereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-ringtones-f[[case]] italic). The arrows and the circle are abolished, representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]].hi5The [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]].com evanescence ringtones freeFor [[Lacan]], jqkdc, http:this [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 163<//downoadref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-freesize:11px" class="references-ringtones.hi5.com downoad free ringtones, klwv, http:small"><references/></samsung-m160-free-ringt.hi5.com Samsung m160 free ringtones, 2302,div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
