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==Jacques Lacan=====Symbolic Chain===The term '"[[signifying chain]]' (" is used increasingly by [[FrenchLacan]]:''from the mid-1950s on, always in references to the [[chaîne signifiantesymbolic order]]''. At first, in 1956, he speaks not of the [[signifying chain]] but of the ''[[chaîne du signifiantsymbolic]]'') is introduced by [[Jacques Lacanchain]] in 1957 to describe , by which he denotes a network line of descendence into which each [[subject]] is inscribed even before his [[signifiersbirth]] (which are linked together) and after his [[death]], and which constitute the influences his destiny [[symbolicunconscious|unconsciously]] .<ref>{{Ec}} p. 468</ref> In the same year he speaks of "the chain of [[orderdiscourse]]."<ref>{{S3}} p. 261</ref>
==Meaning=Metonymy and Desire===A [[signifying chain]] can never be [[lack|complete]], since it is always possible to add [[another]] [[signifier]] to it, ''ad infinitum'', in a way which expresses the eternal [[nature]] of [[desire]]; for this [[reason]], [[desire]] is [[metonymy|metonymic]].
==The subject=Metonymic Axis of Language===The On the one hand, the [[idea]] of linearity suggests that the [[subjectsignifying chain]] is inscribed the stream of [[speech]], in which [[signifier]]s are combined in a accordance with the laws of grammar -- which [[signifying chainSaussure]] before its calls "[[birthsyntagmatic]] " relationships, and after its [[deathLacan]], following [[Jakobson]], locates on the [[metonymic]] axis of [[language]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.468</ref>
==Miscellaneous=Circularity===The [[signifying chain]] is the stream compared to "rings of [[speech]], a necklace that is a ring in which [[signifier]]s are combined in accordance with the [[law]]s another necklace made of grammarrings."<ref>{{E}} p.153</ref>
== See Also=Diachronic and Synchronic Dimensions===* In [[truth]], the [[signifying chain]] is both of these things. In its [[diachrony|diachronic]] [[dimension]] it is linear, [[syntagmatic]], [[metonymic]]; in its [[synchrony|synchronic]] dimension it is circular, associative, [[Signifiermetaphoric]]. The two cross over: * <blockquote>"There is in effect no signifying chain [[[diachronic]] chain] that does not have, as if attached to the [[punctuation]] of each of its units, a [[whole]] articulation of relevant contexts [[[Signifiedsynchronic]]units] suspended 'vertically', as it were, from that point."<ref>{{E}} p. 154</ref></blockquote> * [[SymbolLacan]] thus combines in one [[concept]] the two types of [[relationship]] ("[[syntagmatic]]" and "associative") which [[Saussure]] argued existed between [[sign]]s, though for [[Lacan]], the relationship is between [[signifiers]], not [[sign]]s. ==See Also=={{See}}* [[SymbolismDesire]]* [[LetterLanguage]]||
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