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"[[structure]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[structured|structure]]'')

When The child perceives these relations much more profoundly than the adult, and internalizes them in the [[Lacancomplex]] uses the term "structure" in his early work of the 1930s, it is to refer to "social structures," by which he means a specific set of affective relations between family members.<ref>{{Ec}} p.89</ref>.

The child perceives these relations much more profoundly than term serves as a peg upon which [[Lacan]] can hang his own views of the "relational" nature of the adult[[psyche]], and internalises them in opposition to the atomistic theories then current in [[complexpsychology]].<ref>{{EcL}} p"[[Work of Jacques Lacan|Au-delà du 'principe de realité']]", 1936.89{{E}}</ref>.

From this point on, the term "[[structure]]" retains this sense of something both [[intersubjective]] and intrasubjective, the internal [[representation]] of interpersonal relations.

This remains a key point throughout [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]], in which the emphasis on [[structure ]] is a constant reminder that what determines the [[subject ]] is not some supposed 'essence' but simply his position with respect to other subjects [[subject]]s and other signifiers.

Already in 1938, we find Lacan arguing that 'the most notable defect of analytic doctrine' at that time was that it tended "to ignore structure in favour of a dynamic approach."<ref>Lacan, {{1938: }} p. 58</ref>