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==Jacques Lacan==
===Symbolic Chain===
The term "[[chain]]" is used increasingly by [[Lacan]] from the mid-1950s on, always in references to the [[symbolic order]]. At first, in 1956, he speaks not of the [[signifying chain]] but of the ''[[symbolic]]'' [[chain]], by which he denotes a line of descendence into which each [[subject]] is inscribed even before his [[birth]] and after his [[death]], and which influences his destiny [[unconscious|unconsciously]].<ref>{{Ec}} p. 468</ref> In the same year he speaks of "the chain of [[discourse]]."<ref>{{S3}} p. 261</ref>
The term '[[signifying chain]]' ([[French]]:''chaîne signifiante'', ''chaîne du signifiant'') ===Chain of Signifiers===It is used by in 1957 that [[Jacques Lacan]] to describe introduces the term "[[symbolicsignifying chain]] " to refer to a series of [[ordersignifiers]]which are linked together.
The ===Metonymy and Desire===A [[signifying chain]] can never be [[subjectlack|complete]] , since it is inscribed always possible to add [[another]] [[signifier]] to it, ''ad infinitum'', in a way which expresses the eternal [[signifying chainnature]] of [[desire]]; for this [[reason]] before its , [[birthdesire]] and after its is [[deathmetonymy|metonymic]].<ref>Ec. p.468</ref>
In 1957, ===Metonymy and Signification===The [[chain]] is also [[metonymy|metonymic]] in the production of [[meaning]]; [[signification]] is not [[Lacanpresent]] introduces at any one point in the term '[[signifying chain]]' to refer to a series of , but rather [[meaning]] "insists" in the movement from one [[signifierssignifier]] which are linked togetherto another.<ref>{{E}} p.153</ref>
A ===Linearity Versus Circularity===[[Lacan]] speaks of the [[signifying chain]] is never complete, because it is always possible to add another in linear [[metaphor]]s and circular [[signifiermetaphor]] to it, ''ad infinitum''s.
A [[signifying ===Linearity===<blockquote>"The linearity that Saussure holds to be constitutive of the chain of discourse applies to the chain]] of discourse only in the direction in which it is [[metonymy|metonymic]] oriented in the production of [[meaningtime]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 154</ref></blockquote>
===Metonymic Axis of Language===On the one hand, the [[Significationidea]] of linearity suggests that the [[signifying chain]] is not present at any one point the stream of [[speech]], in which [[signifier]]s are combined in accordance with the laws of grammar -- which [[Saussure]] calls "[chain[syntagmatic]]" relationships, and [[Lacan]], but rather following [[meaningJakobson]] 'insists' in , locates on the movement from one [[signifiermetonymic]] axis of [[language]] to another.<ref>{{E}} p.153</ref>
Lacan speaks of the ===Circularity===The [[signifyin signifying chain]] is compared to "rings of a necklace that is a ring in linear [[metaphor]]s and circular [[metaphor]]sanother necklace made of rings."<ref>{{E}} p.153</ref>
The ===Metaphoric Axis of Language===On the [[other]] hand, the idea of linearity circularity suggests that the [[signifying chain ]] is a series of [[signifier]]s linked by [[free association]]s, just one path through the network of [[signifiers]] which constitutes the stream [[symbolic]] [[world]] of speechthe [[subject]] -- which [[Saussure]] calls "associative" relationships, and [[Lacan]], following [[Jakobson]], in which signifiers are combined in accordance with locates on the laws [[metaphoric]] axis of grammar[[language]].
The idea of circularity suggests that ===Diachronic and Synchronic Dimensions===In [[truth]], the [[signifying chain]] is a series both of these things. In its [[signifierdiachrony|diachronic]]s linked by [[free associationdimension]]sit is linear, [[syntagmatic]], [[metonymic]]; in its [[synchrony|synchronic]] dimension it is circular, associative, just one path through the network of [[signifiersmetaphoric]]. The two cross over: <blockquote>"There is in effect no signifying chain [[[diachronic]] which constitutes chain] that does not have, as if attached to the [[symbolicpunctuation]] of each of its units, a [[worldwhole]] articulation of the relevant contexts [[[subjectsynchronic]]units] suspended 'vertically', as it were, from that point."<ref>{{E}} p.154</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>The signifying chain is compared to "rings of a necklace that is a ring [[Lacan]] thus combines in another necklace made one [[concept]] the two types of rings.[[relationship]] ("[[syntagmatic]]" and "associative"<ref>{{E}} p) which [[Saussure]] argued existed between [[sign]]s, though for [[Lacan]], the relationship is between [[signifiers]], not [[sign]]s.153</ref></blockquote>
The ==See Also=={{See}}* [[signifying chainDesire]], in its * [[diachronicLanguage]] dimension is linear, ||* [[syntagmaticMetaphor]], * [[metonymicMetonymy]], in its ||* [[synchronicSign]] dimension, it is circular, associative, * [[metaphorSignification]]ic.   == See Also==||
* [[Signifier]]
* [[SignifiedSymbolic order]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symbolism]]* [[Letter]]{{Also}}
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