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It is in 1957 that [[Lacan]] introduces the term "[[signifying chain]]" to refer to a series of [[signifiers]] which are linked together.
[[Lacan]] speaks of the [[signifying chain]] in linear [[metaphor]]s and circular [[metaphor]]s.
The [[signifying chain]] is compared to "rings of a necklace that is a ring in another necklace made of rings."<ref>{{E}} p. 153</ref>
===Diachronic and Synchronic Dimensions===In [[truth]], the [[signifying chain]] is both of these things. In its [[diachrony|diachronic]] [[dimension]] it is linear, [[syntagmatic]], [[metonymic]]; in its [[synchrony|synchronic]] dimension it is circular, associative, [[metaphoric]]. The two cross over: <blockquote>"There is in effect no signifying chain [[[diachronic ]] chain] that does not have, as if attached to the [[punctuation ]] of each of its units, a [[whole ]] articulation of relevant contexts [[[synchronic ]] units] suspended 'vertically', as it were, from that point."<ref>{{E}} p. 154</ref></blockquote>
[[Lacan]] thus combines in one [[concept ]] the two types of [[relationship ]] ("[[syntagmatic]]" and "associative") which [[Saussure]] argued existed between [[sign]]s, though for [[Lacan]], the relationship is between [[signifiers]], not [[sign]]s.
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