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| [[French]]: ''[[graphe du désir]]
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The "[[graph of desire]]" is a [[topology|topographical representation]] - [[topology|schema]] or [[topology|model]] - of the [[structure]] of [[desire]].
The [[graph of desire]] is a conceptual tool from the [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic theory]] of [[Jacques Lacan]].
The [[graph of desire]] is a [[topology|topological representation]] of the [[structure]] of [[desire]].
The [[graph of desire]] is a [[topology|topological]] [[matheme|schema]] of the [[structure]] of the constitution of the [[human]] [[subject]] and its [[desire]].
==Graph==
It depends on ideas developed originally in Lacan's Schema R, a graph in which fundamental organizing sturctures of the human mind are shown in a schematic relationship to the registers which in turn structure human reality: the [[imaginary]], the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]].
The [[graph of desire]] is a 'flattened' representation of a [[signifying chain]] as it crosses a pathway [[Lacan]] called a vector of [[desire].
It appears as two curved lines which cross one another at two separate points.
Each line has a symbolic meaning.
==Development==
[[Lacan]] builds up the [[graph of desire]] in four stages.
Its four successive stages represent the constitution of the [[human]] [[subject]] and his [[desire]].
The stages of the graph of desire are not meant to show any evolution or temporal development, since the graph always exists as a whole.
Nevertheless, [[Lacan]] never intended to describe the [[biology|genetic]] [[development|stages]] of a [[biology|biological]] [[development]].
Rather, it represents the "[[time|logical moments]]" of the [[development|birth]] of a [[speech|speaking]] [[subject]].
===Elementary Cell===
[[Image:Lacan-graph-elementary.jpg|Elementary Cell|thumb|right|200px]]
The first of these stages in the "[[graph of desire|elementary cell]]" of the [[graph of desire|graph]].<ref>{{E}} p.303</ref>
The horizontal line represents the [[diachronic]] [[signifying chain]]; the horseshoe-shaped line represents the vector of the [[subject]]'s [[intention]]ality.
The double intersection of these two lines illustrates the nature of [[time|retroaction]]: the message, at the point marked '''s(A)''' in the [[graph of desire|elementary cell]], is the ''[[point de capiton]]'' determined [[time|retroactively]] by the particular [[punctuation]] given to it by the [[Other]], '''A'''.
The [[linguistic|prelinguistic]] mythical [[subject]] of pure [[need]], indicated by the triangle, must pass through the defiles of the [[signifier]] which produces the [[divided]] [[subject]], '''$'''.
===Intermediate Stages===
The intermediate stages of the [[graph of desire]] are not meant to show any [[progress|evolution]] or [[development|temporal development]], since the [[graph of desire|graph]] always exists as a whole; they are simply pedagogical devices used by [[Lacan]] in order to illustrate the [[structure]] of the [[graph of desire|complete graph]].<ref>{{E}} p.315</ref>
Nevertheless, [[Lacan]] never intended to describe the genetic stages of a [[biological]] [[development]].
Rather, it represents the "logical moments" of the birth of a [[speaking]] [[subject]].
===Complete Graph===
[[Image:Lacan-graph-complete.jpg|Complete Graph|thumb|right|200px]]
In the [[graph of desire|complete graph]] there are not one but two [[signifying chain]]s.
The lower [[chain]] (from the [[signifier]] to the [[voice]]) is the [[conscious]] [[signifying chain]], the level of the [[statement]].
The upper [[chain]] (from ''[[jouissance]]'' to [[castration]]) is the [[signifying chain]] in the [[unconscious]], the level of the [[enunciation]].
The [[structure]] is thus duplicated: the upper part of the [[graph]] is structured exactly like the lower part.
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Desire]]
* ''[[Point de capiton]]''
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* [[Signifier]]
* [[Signifying Chain]]
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* [[Subject]]
* [[Unconscious]]
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==References==
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[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
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