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://super# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-pets[[image]]).co The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond.cc/giga-pets-online =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.html giga pets online<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, 101982Ferdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', http://super-petsed.co.cc/els-pets-mp3Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans.html els pets mp3, ybfyyWade Baskin, httpGlasgow://super-petsCollins Fontana.cop.cc114</go-pets-online.html go pets onlineref> In this diagram, rgzkqothe line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, http://super-petsthe reciprocal implication of the two elements.co.cc/green-pets ([[Saussure]] put the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] in an ellipse which indicates [[structure|structural unity]] of the [[sign]].html green pets) =====Jacques Lacan=====[[Lacan]] takes up the [[Saussure]]an concept of the [[sign]] in his "[[linguistic]] turn" in [[psychoanalysis]] during the 1950s, 8821, http://super-petsbut [[subjects]] it to several modifications.coDuring the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.cc/geese- =====Relation between Signifier and Signified=====Firstly, whereas [[Saussure]] posited the reciprocal implication between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] (they are as mutually interdependent as-petstwo sides of a sheet of paper), [[Lacan]] argues that the relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] is extremely unstable.html geese as pets =====Primacy of the Signifier=====Secondly, sim[[Lacan]] asserts the [[existence]] of an order of "pure [[signifiers]], http://super-pets" where [[signifier]]s [[exist]] prior to [[signified]]s; this [[order]] of purely [[logical]] [[structure]] is the [[unconscious]].coThis 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.cc/goldfish-as-pets =====Saussurean algorithm=====[[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.html goldfish as petsgif|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, 744[[Lacan]] argues, http://supershould be attributed to [[Saussure]] --petsand is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.co"<ref>{{E}} p.cc149</aqua-pets.html aqua petsref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], and the '''s''' for the [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] is thus inverted, ozkshowing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, http://superwhereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-pets[[case]] italic).coThe arrows and the circle are abolished, representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]].cc/ghost-petsThe [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]].html ghost pets, fnmpefFor [[Lacan]], http://super-petsthis [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]].co"<ref>{{E}} p.cc163</giftref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-basketssize:11px" class="references-for-pets.html gift baskets for pets, ckr,small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
