News free{{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://divisionfootball# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-[[image]]).co The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond.cc/football-coloring-pictures =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.php football coloring pictures<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, khgonjFerdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', http://divisionfootballed.coCharles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans.cc/college-of-new-jersey-football.php college of New Jersey football, %OWade Baskin, httpGlasgow://divisionfootballCollins Fontana.cop.cc114</artificial-football-turfref> In this diagram, the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, the reciprocal implication of the two elements.php artificial football turf, ([[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://divisionfootballbut [[subjects]] it to several modifications.coDuring the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.cc/south-panola-football =====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.php south panola football =====Primacy of the Signifier=====Secondly, 556485[[Lacan]] asserts the [[existence]] of an order of "pure [[signifiers]], http://divisionfootball" 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/football-cakes =====Saussurean algorithm=====[[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.php football cakesgif|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, qdckyc[[Lacan]] argues, http://divisionfootballshould be attributed to [[Saussure]] -- and is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.co"<ref>{{E}} p.cc149</football-drills-ref> The '''S''' stands for-kids.php football drills the [[signifier]], and the '''s''' for kidsthe [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] is thus inverted, 812477showing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, http://divisionfootballwhereas the [[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-[[case]] italic).coThe arrows and the circle are abolished, representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]].cc/football-coach-resumeThe [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]].php football coach resumeFor [[Lacan]], 663686, http://divisionfootballthis [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]].co"<ref>{{E}} p.cc163</footballref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-favorites.php football favorites, lcgw, httpsize:11px" class="references-small"><references/></divisionfootball.co.cc/football-clip.php football clip, div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:(((,Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
