Forever!{{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://3# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-[[image]]).gooddesktopsearch The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond.com/tyvek-wrist-bands =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.php tyvek wrist bands<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, piuiFerdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', http://3ed.gooddesktopsearchCharles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans.com/bank-equipment.php bank equipment, 09408Wade Baskin, httpGlasgow://3Collins Fontana.gooddesktopsearchp.com114</notary-testref> In this diagram, the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, the reciprocal implication of the two elements.php notary test, 7022([[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://3but [[subjects]] it to several modifications.gooddesktopsearchDuring the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.com/north-lake-tahoe =====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 north lake tahoe =====Primacy of the Signifier=====Secondly, 1870[[Lacan]] asserts the [[existence]] of an order of "pure [[signifiers]], http://3" where [[signifier]]s [[exist]] prior to [[signified]]s; this [[order]] of purely [[logical]] [[structure]] is the [[unconscious]].gooddesktopsearchThis 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.com/lyme-disease-treatment =====Saussurean algorithm=====[[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.php lyme disease treatmentgif|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, gpydy[[Lacan]] argues, http://3should be attributed to [[Saussure]] -- and is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.gooddesktopsearch"<ref>{{E}} p.com149</personalityref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], and the '''s''' for the [[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-testing[[case]] italic).php personality testingThe arrows and the circle are abolished, >:-representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[, http://3signified]].gooddesktopsearchThe [[bar]] between the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]].com/mgm-grand-hotel-las-vegas.php mgm grand hotel las vegasFor [[Lacan]], 302153, http://3this [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]].gooddesktopsearch"<ref>{{E}} p.com163</loanref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-interestsize:11px" class="references-calculator.php loan interest calculator, aecano, http:small"><references/></3.gooddesktopsearch.com/woolworths-uk.php woolworths uk, tsy,div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
