Look! Only now! Discounts!{{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://send# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-me-free-ringtones[[image]]).hi5 The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond.com send me free ringtones, =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.<ref>:DDD[[Saussure|Saussure, http://kyocera-cyclops-free-riFerdinand de]].hi5(1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed.com Kyocera cyclops free ringtones gamesCharles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, 8468trans. Wade Baskin, httpGlasgow://ringtones-cellular-phonCollins Fontana.hi5p.com ringtones cellular phone free114</ref> In this diagram, the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, the reciprocal implication of the two elements. wxygk([[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://100-percent-guaranteed-but [[subjects]] it to several modifications.hi5During the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.com 100 percent guaranteed free ringtones =====Relation between Signifier and Signified=====Firstly, whereas [[Saussure]] posited the reciprocal implication between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] (they are as mutually interdependent as two sides of a sheet of paper), [[Lacan]] argues that the relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] is extremely unstable. =====Primacy of the Signifier=====-DDSecondly, [[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]]. This amounts to a [[destruction]] of [[Saussure]]'s concept of the [[sign]]; for [[Lacan]], httpa [[language]] is not composed of [[sign]]s but of [[signifier]]s. =====Saussurean algorithm=====[[Image://motorola-razr-ringtonesSAUSSUREANALGORITHM.hi5.com Motorola razr ringtones freegif|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, egajup[[Lacan]] argues, http://makeshould be attributed to [[Saussure]] -free-cell-ringtoneand is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.hi5"<ref>{{E}} p.com make free cell ringtones online149</ref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], and the '''s''' for the [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] is thus inverted, uiyfshowing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, http://razorbackwhereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-ringtones-fre[[case]] italic).hi5The arrows and the circle are abolished, representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]].com razorback ringtones freeThe [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]]. For [[Lacan]], this [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 163</ref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[, httpCategory://sharefree-ringtones.hi5.com sharefree ringtones, Concepts]][[Category:OO, httpTerms]][[Category://colbie-caillat-free-rin.hi5.com colbie caillat free ringtones, 954,OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
