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<blockquote>When I began to teach something [[about]] [[Psychoanalysis]] I lost some of my audience, because I had perceived long before then the simple fact that if you open a book of [[Freud]], and particularly those books which are properly about the [[unconscious]], you can be absolutely sure -- it is not a probability but a certitude -- to fall on a page where it is not only a question of [[word]]s -- [[naturally]] in a book there are always [[words]] many printed words -- but [[word]]s which are the [[object]] through which one seeks for a way to handle the  [[unconscious]].  Not even the [[meaning]] of the [[word]]s, but [[word]]s in their flesh, in their [[material]] aspect.  A great part of the speculations of [[Freud]] is about [[pun]]ning in a [[dream]] or [[lapsus]], or what in [[French]] we call <i>calembour, homonymie</i>, or still the [[division]] of a word into many parts with each part taking on a new meaning after it is broken down.  It is curious to note, even if in this [[case]] it is not absolutely proven, that words are the only [[material]] of the [[unconscious]]. It is not proven but it is probable (and in any case I have never said that the [[unconscious]] was an assemblage of [[word]]s, but that the [[unconscious]] is precisely [[structure]]d).  I don't [[think]] there is such an [[English]] word but it is necessary to have this term, as we are talking about [[structure]] and the [[unconscious is structured as a language]].  What does that mean?<ref>[[Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever]]</ref></blockquote>
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* [[Letter]]
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* [[Language]]
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* [[Materialism]]
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* [[Structure]]
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* [[Unconscious]]
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* [[Signifier]]
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* [[Sign]]
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* [[Linguistics]]
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* [[Saussure]]
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When I began to teach something about Psychoanalysis I lost some of my audience, because I had perceived long before then the simple fact that if you open a book of Freud, and particularly those books which are properly about the unconscious, you can be absolutely sure -- it is not a probability but a certitude -- to fall on a page where it is not only a question of words -- naturally in a book there are always words many printed words -- but words which are the object through which one seeks for a way to handle the unconscious. Not even the meaning of the words, but words in their flesh, in their material aspect. A great part of the speculations of Freud is about punning in a dream or lapsus, or what in French we call calembour, homonymie, or still the division of a word into many parts with each part taking on a new meaning after it is broken down. It is curious to note, even if in this case it is not absolutely proven, that words are the only material of the unconscious. It is not proven but it is probable (and in any case I have never said that the unconscious was an assemblage of words, but that the unconscious is precisely structured). I don't think there is such an English word but it is necessary to have this term, as we are talking about structure and the unconscious is structured as a language. What does that mean?[1]

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