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==Ferdinand de Saussure==
According to [[Saussure]], the [[signified]] is the [[conceptual]] element of the [[sign]]. It is not the [[real]] [[object]] denoted by a [[sign]] -- the [[referent]] -- but a [[psychological]] entity corresponding to such an [[object]].<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, Ferdinand de]]. ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', ed. Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans. Wade Baskin, Glasgow: Collins Fontana. 1916. p.66-7</ref>
signified (sigmyiÈ) According to Saussure, the signified is the concep-==Jacques Lacan==tual element ===Primacy of the SIGN. It iS DOt the real object denoted by a sign (theSignifier===referent), but a psychological entity corresponding to such an object (Saussure, 1916: 66-7).  For [[Saussure]], the [[signified ]] has the same status as the SIGNIFIER[[signifier]]; both [[form ]] equal sides of the [[sign]]. [[Lacan]], on the [[other ]] hand, asserts the supremacy primacy of the [[signifier]], and argues that the [[signified ]] is a mere effect of the play of signifiers[[signifier]]s, an effect of the [[process ]] of [[signification ]] produced by [[metaphor]]. In other [[words]], the [[signified ]] is not given, but produced.  Lacan's view is thus opposed to an expressionist view of language, accord- ing to which concepts exist in some pre-verbal state before being expressed in the material medium of language. In contrast to such a view, Lacan asserts the priority (logical rather than chronological) of the material element of language. 
===Materialism of Language===
[[Lacan]]'s view is thus opposed to an expressionist view of [[language]], according to which [[concepts]] [[exist]] in some pre-[[verbal]] [[state]] before [[being]] expressed in the [[material]] medium of [[language]]. In contrast to such a view, [[Lacan]] asserts the priority ([[logical]] rather than [[chronological]]) of the [[material]] element of [[language]].
==See Also==
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* [[Language]]
* [[Materialism]]
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* [[Metaphor]]
* [[Sign]]
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* [[Signification]]
* [[Signifier]]
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== References ==
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