All news{{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://wap# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-free-ringtones-on-v[[image]]).hi5 The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond.com wap free ringtones on Verizon =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, >:-Ferdinand de]]. (1916)''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', http://daniel-bedingfield-freeed.hi5Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans.com daniel bedingfield free ringtonesWade Baskin, 263694, httpGlasgow://no-charge-ringtones-freCollins Fontana.hi5p.com no charge ringtones free114</ref> In this diagram, the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, the reciprocal implication of the two elements. ([[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://w300i-free-ringtonesbut [[subjects]] it to several modifications.hi5During the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.com w300i 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=====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]]. 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://ringtones-SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|right|thumb|Saussurean algorithm|The Saussurean algorithm]] To illustrate the contrast between his own views andthose of [[Saussure]], [[Lacan]] replaces [[Saussure]]'s diagram of the [[sign]] with an [[Saussurean algorithm|algorithm]] which, [[Lacan]] argues, should be attributed to [[Saussure]] -download-and is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.hi5"<ref>{{E}} p.com ringtones 149</ref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], and download the '''s''' for the [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and freethe [[signifier]] is thus inverted, 747showing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, http://16whereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-free-ringtones[[case]] italic).hi5.com 16 free ringtonesThe arrows and the circle are abolished, %-representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[, http://great-free-rap-ringtonesignified]].hi5The [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]].com great free rap ringtonesFor [[Lacan]], %this [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]], http:."<ref>{{E}} p. 163<//nascarref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-ringtonessize:11px" class="references-free.hi5.com nascar ringtones free, ubqd, http:small"><references/></any-carrier-free-ringto.hi5.com any carrier free ringtones, div> [[Category:-(((,Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
