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==Nature and Language==
A constant theme running throughout Lacan's work is the distinction he draws between human beings and other animals, or, as Lacan puts it, between "human society" and "animal society."<ref>{{S1}} p.223</ref>
 
The basis of this distinction is [[language]]; [[human]]s have [[language]], whereas [[animal]]s merely have [[code]]s.
 
The consequence of this fundamental difference is that animal psychology is entirely dominated by the [[imaginary]], whereas [[human]] [[psychology]] is complicated by the additional dimension of the [[symbolic]].
 
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==Nature and Language==
[[Jacques Lacan]] posits a distinction between [[human]]s and other [[animal]]s, the basis of which is [[language]].<ref>{{S1}} p.223</ref>
==Nature and Culture==
Within the context of this bindayr opposition between human beings and other animals, Lacan uses the term 'nature' in a complex doubl sense. On the one hand, he uses it to designate one term in the oppositon, namely the animal world. In this sense, [[Lacan]] adopts the traditional [[anthropology|anthropological]] opposition between [[nature]] and [[culture]] ([[culture]] being, in [[Lacan]]ian terms, the [[symbolic]] [[order]]).
==Incest Prohibition==
<blockquote>The primordial Law is therefore that which in regulating marriage superimposes the kingdom of culture on that of a nature abandoned to the law of mating.<ref>{{E}} p.66</ref></blockquote>
 
 
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The regulation of kinship by the [[incest]] [[taboo]] points to the fact that the paternal function is at the heart of the rift between [[human]]s and [[animal]]s.
In other words, what is unique about [[human]] beings is not that in human beings the [[imaginary]] [[order]] is distorted by the added dimension of the [[symbolic]].
 
The imaginary is what animals and human beings have in common, except that in human beings it is no longer a natural imaginary.
 
Hence Lacan repudiates "the doctrine of a discontinuity between animal psychology and human psychology which is far away from our thought."<ref>{{Ec}} p.484</ref>
==Nature==
There On the other hand, LAcan also uses the term '[[nature]]' to denote the idea that there is not even a pure 'natural state at the beginning order' in [[human]] [[existence]], an idea which Lacan calls the "great fantasy of ''nautra mater'', the very idea of nature."<ref>{{S1}} p.149</ref> This great [[humanfantasy]] of [[nature]] underlies modern [[psychology]] , which attempts to explain [[subjecthuman]] might [[existbehavior]] before being caught up in the by reference to ethological categories such as [[symbolicinstinct]] and [[orderadaptation]]. 
[[Lacan]] uses the term '[[nature]]' to denote the idea that there is a 'natural order' in [[human]] [[existence]].----
This great [[fantasy]] of [[nature]] underlies modern [[psychology]], which attempts to explain [[human]] [[behavior]] by reference to ethological categories such as [[instinct]] and [[adaptation]].
[[Lacan]] is highly critical of all such attempts to explain the phenomena in terms of [[nature]].
<blockquote>In the [[human]] world, even "those [[signification]]s that are closest to [[need]], [[signification]]s that are relative to the most purely [[biological]] insertion into a nutrittive and captivating environment, primordial [[signification]]s, are, in their sequence and in their very foundation, subject to the [[law]]s of the [[signifier]].<ref>{{S3}} p.198</ref></blockquote>
[[Lacan]] argued that "the [[Freudian]] discovery teaches us that all natural harmony in man is profoundly disconcerted."<ref>{{S3}} p.83</ref>
Such ----- [[Lacan]] thus argues that "the [[Freudian]] discovery teaches us that all natural harmony in man is profoundly disconcerted."<ref>{{S3}} p.83</ref> There is not even a pure natural state at the beginning in which the [[human]] [[subject]] might [[exist]] before being caught up in the [[symbolic]] [[order]]. "The Law is there ''ab origine''."<ref>{{S3}} p.83</ref> [[Need]] is never present in a pure pre-linguistic state in the human being: such a '[[mythical]]' pre-[[linguistic]] [[need]] can only be hypothesized after it has been articulated in [[demand]].
==Human Sexuality==
There is no such thing, for the [[human]] being, as a natural [[sexual relationship]].
One consequence of this is that [[Perversionperversion]] cannot be defined by reference to a supposed [[natural]] or [[biological]] [[norm]] governing [[sexuality]].
Whereas [[animal]] [[instincts]] are relatively invariable, [[human]] [[sexuality]] is governed by [[drive]]s which are extremely variable and do not aim at a [[biology|biological]] function.
 
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