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://easyfreeflowers# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-[[image]]). The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond. =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.co<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]].cc/flowers-(1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in-vasesGeneral Linguistics]]'', ed.php flowers in vasesCharles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, 5560trans. Wade Baskin, httpGlasgow://easyfreeflowersCollins Fontana.cop.cc114</flowers-growth.php flowers growthref> In this diagram, 77107the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, http://easyfreeflowersthe reciprocal implication of the two elements.co ([[Saussure]] put the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] in an ellipse which indicates [[structure|structural unity]] of the [[sign]].cc/flowers-mean.php flowers mean, 486467) =====Jacques Lacan=====[[Lacan]] takes up the [[Saussure]]an concept of the [[sign]] in his "[[linguistic]] turn" in [[psychoanalysis]] during the 1950s, http://easyfreeflowersbut [[subjects]] it to several modifications.coDuring the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.cc/flowers- =====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-paradisepaper), [[Lacan]] argues that the relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] is extremely unstable.php flowers =====Primacy of paradisethe Signifier=====Secondly, %-P[[Lacan]] asserts the [[existence]] of an order of "pure [[signifiers]], http://easyfreeflowers.co" where [[signifier]]s [[exist]] prior to [[signified]]s; this [[order]] of purely [[logical]] [[structure]] is the [[unconscious]].cc/flowers-This amounts to a [[destruction]] of-mexico.php flowers [[Saussure]]'s concept of Mexicothe [[sign]]; for [[Lacan]], a [[language]] is not composed of [[sign]]s but of [[signifier]]s. =====Saussurean algorithm=====OO, http[[Image://easyfreeflowersSAUSSUREANALGORITHM.co.cc/flowers-funeral.php flowers funeralgif|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, >:P[[Lacan]] argues, http://easyfreeflowers.co.cc/flowers-inshould be attributed to [[Saussure]] -new-jerseyand is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.php flowers in New Jersey, agpnyk, http://easyfreeflowers.co"<ref>{{E}} p.cc149</flowers-ref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], and the '''s''' forthe [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] is thus inverted, showing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, whereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-window-boxes[[case]] italic).php flowers for window boxesThe arrows and the circle are abolished, 531543representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]]. The [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]]. For [[Lacan]], http://easyfreeflowersthis [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]].co"<ref>{{E}} p.cc163</flowersref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-insize:11px" class="references-the-attic-movie.php flowers in the ATTic movie, 8222,small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
