The [[graph of desire]] is a [[topology|topological]] [[matheme|schema]] of the [[structure]] of the constitution of the [[human]] [[subject]] and its [[desire]].
==History==
The [[graph of desire]] was first porposed in a 1960 colloquium, and was later published in the ''[[Ecrits]]''.
The [[graph of desire]] is a schema, or model, that [[Jacques Lacan]] began developing in his [[seminar]] on [[Seminar V|The Formations of the Unconscious]].<ref>{{LB}} [[Seminar V|The Formations of the Unconscious]]. [[{{Y}}|1957]]-[[{{Y}}|58]]</ref>
The [[graph of desire]] was gradually developed by [[Lacan]] in the course of two successive [[seminars]]: [[Seminar V|The Formations of the Unconscious]] and [[Seminar VI|Desire and its Interpretation]].
[[Lacan]] first develops the [[graph of desire]] in [[Seminar V|the seminar of 1957-8]] in order to illustrate the [[psychoanalytic theory]] of [[joke]]s.<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]]. ''[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious]]," 1905. [[SE]] VIII.</ref>
The [[graph of desire|graph]] reappears in some of the following [[seminars]], but then all but disappears from [[Lacan]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]].
He refers to the basic schema once again in "[[The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious]]."
It achieved its definitive form in his essay "[[The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious]]."<ref>{{LB}} "[[The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious]]." 1960</ref>
The [[graph of desire|graph]] appears in various forms, although the most well known form of it appears in "[[The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]."<ref>[[Lacan, Jacques]]. "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Subversion du sujet et dialectique du désir dans l'inconscient freudien]]." ''[[Écrits]]''. Paris: Seuil, 1966. p.793-827. "[[The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]." [[Ecrits: A Selection]]. Trans. Alan Sheridan. Bruce Fink. London: Tavistock. 1977. New York: W. W. Norton. 2004. p.292-325</ref>
==Graph==
