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The signifying chain has only one destiny: to insert the subject's unconscious desire in the subject's utterances. Thus it constitutes the design and the weave of the speaking subject's psychic fabric. More generally, it is involved in all psychic causality.
==See Also==
* [[Four discourses]]
* [[Graph of Desire]]
* [[Infantile, the]]
* [[Letter, the]]
* [[Matheme]]
* [[Psychic causality]]
* [[Signifier]]
* [[Symptom, sinthome]]
* [[Unary trait]]
==References==
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# Lacan Jacques. (1993). The seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book 3: The psychoses, 1955-1956 (Russell Grigg, Trans.) New York: W. W. Norton.
# ——. (2002a).Écrits: A selection (Bruce Fink, Trans.) New York: W. W. Norton.
# ——. (2002b). The function and field of speech and language in psychoanalysis. In hisÉcrits: A selection (Bruce Fink, Trans.) New York: W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1953)
# ——. (2002c). The instance of the letter in the unconscious, or reason since Freud. In hisÉcrits: A selection (Bruce Fink, Trans.) New York: W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1957)
# ——. (2002d). The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconcsious. In hisÉcrits: A selection (Bruce Fink, Trans.) New York: W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1960)
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