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A [[signifier]], an element of [[language]], is a material [[representation]] of a [[linguistics|linguistic]] [[sign]].
In [[psychoanalysis]], it is a [[phoneme|phonemic]] sequence of the [[discourse]] that intervenes in [[conscious]] and [[unconscious]] processes to determine the [[subject]] engaged in the discourse.
A [[signified]] is the idea or concept associated with a [[signifier]], which together constitute the [[linguistics|linguistic]] [[sign]].
These elements, which come from [[Ferdinand de Saussure]]'s [[linguistic theory]], were introduced and problematized in the field of [[psychoanalysis]] by [[Jacques Lacan]] during his "[[return to Freud]]" phase in the early 1950s.
Lacan relied on the following main points of Saussure's structural model.
The [[linguistics|linguistic]] [[sign]], which belongs to [[language]], establishes a relationship between a [[signifier]] (acoustic wave form) and a [[signified]] (concept).
The directed and temporal sequence of an articulation presupposes the division of [[language]] into two axes: the [[syntagmatic axis]], which refers to a system of [[speech]] as a system of [[sign]]s capable of being combined and concatenated, and the [[paradigmatic axis]], which refers to a system of [[language]] as a system of [[sign]]s selected and substituted for particular meanings.
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In the period 1953-7 the term retains these vague associations with the [[Real]]m of meaning and language, and is thus located in the [[Symbolic]] order (S4, 121).