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{{Top}}| align="right" style="line-height:2.0em;margin-left:10px;text-align:right;background-color:#fcfcfc;border:1px solid #aaa" | [[French]]: ''[[graphe du désir{{Bottom}]] |}
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]].
The [[structure]] is thus duplicated: the upper part of the [[graph]] is structured exactly like the lower part.
==See Also==
