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"[[Absence]]"
([[Fr]]. ''[[absence]]'')
==Symbolic==
<blockquote>"In the symbolic order nothing exists except upon an assumed foundation of absence. Nothing exists except insofar as it does not exist."<ref>{{Ec}} p.392</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>"There is no absence in the real. There is only absence if you suggest that there may be a presence there where there isn't one."<ref>{{S2}} p.313</ref></blockquote>
==Absence and Presence==
==Presence and Absence==
As [[Roman Jakobson]] showed with his analysis of [[phoneme]]s, all [[linguistic]] phenomena may be entirely characterized in terms of the [[presence]] or [[absence]] of certain distinctive features.
[[Lacan]] sees the game of ''[[fort-da|fort!/da!]]'', which [[Freud]] describes in ''[[Beyond the Pleasure Principle]]'', as a primitive phonemic opposition representing the child's entry into the [[symbolic order]].
== Fort-Da ==
[[Lacan]] argues that "the nothing" (''le rien'') is in itself an [[object]] (or '[[partial object]]').<ref>{{S4}} p.184-5</ref>
== Sexual DifferenceWord== [[Lacan]] notes that the [[symbol]] -- or [[word]] -- is "a [[presence]] made of [[absence]]" because:# the [[symbol]] is used in the [[absence]] of the [[thing]] and# [[signifiers]] only exist insofar as they are opposed to other [[signifiers]].<ref>{{E}} p.65</ref> <blockquote>"Through the word, which is already a presence made of absence, absence itself comes to be named."</blockquote> ==The Presence of Absence== Because of the mutual implication of [[absence]] and [[presence]] in the [[symbolic order]], [[absence]] can be said to have an equally positive existence in the [[symbolic]] as [[presence]]. This is what allows [[Lacan]] to say that "the nothing" (''le rien'') is in itself an [[object]] (a [[partial object]]).<ref>{{S4}} p.184-5</ref> ==Phallus== It is around the [[presence]] and [[absence]] of the [[phallus]] that [[sexual difference]] is [[symbolically]] apprehended by the [[development|child]].
[[Sexual difference]] is apprehended by the [[child]] [[symbolic]]ally around the [[presence]] and [[absence]] of the [[phallus]].
==Misc==
Presence, 18, 21, 23, 72, 78, 94, 99, 107,115,118,120,128,155,186, 239, 274, 277, 304, 349, 361, 398, 400, 417<ref>Muller, John P. and William J. Richardson. Lacan and Language: A Reader's Guide to Ecrits. New York: International Universiites Press, Inc., 1982.</ref>
==See Also==
== References ==
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