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===Symbolic Law===
When [[Lacan]] returns to the [[subject]] of the [[superego]] in his 1953-4 [[seminar]]; he locates it in the [[symbolic|symbolic order]], as opposed to the [[imaginary|imaginary order]] of the [[ego]]: the [[superego]] is essentially located within the [[symbolic|symbolic plane]] of [[speech]].<ref>{{S1}} p. 102</ref>
The [[superego]] has a close relationship with the [[Law]], but this relationship is a paradoxical one.
On the one hand, the [[Law]] as such is a [[symbolic]] [[structure]] which regualtes [[subjectivity]] and in this sense prevents disintegration.
On the other hand, the [[law]] of the [[superego]] has a "senseless, blind character, of pure imperativeness and simple tyranny.<ref>{{S1}} p. 102</ref>
<blockquote>Thus "the superego is at one and the same time the law and its destruction."<ref>{{S1}} p. 102</ref></blockquote>
The [[superego]] arises from the misunderstanding of the [[law]], from the [[gap]]s in the [[symbolic]] [[chain]], and fills out those [[gap]]s with an [[imaginary]] [[substitute]] that distorts the [[law]].<ref>{{E}} p. 143</ref>
===Philosophy===
