All news{{Top}}[[signe]]{{Bottom}} ===Ferdinand de Saussure===[[Image:SAUSSUREANALGORITHM.gif|thumb|200px|right|The Saussurean Sign]]According to [[Saussure]], httpthe [[sign]] is the basic unit of [[language]] The [[sign]] is constituted by two elements://lg# the [[signified]], a [[conceptual]] element (or [[concept]]), and # the [[signifier]], a phonological element (or sound-muziq-free-ringtones[[image]]). The two elements are linked by an [[arbitrary]] but unbreakable bond.hi5 =====Saussurean Sign=====[[Saussure]] represented the [[sign]] by means of a diagram.com LG muziq free ringtones<ref>[[Saussure|Saussure, bnyFerdinand de]]. (1916) ''[[Saussure|Course in General Linguistics]]'', http://listen-to-ringtones-fored.hi5Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye, trans.com listen to ringtones for freeWade Baskin, 835141, httpGlasgow://totaly-free-ringtonesCollins Fontana.hi5p.com totaly free ringtones114</ref> In this diagram, the line between the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] represents union, the reciprocal implication of the two elements. 8-([[Saussure]] put the [[signifier]] and the [[signified]] in an ellipse which indicates [[structure|structural unity]] of the [[sign]].) =====Jacques Lacan=====[[Lacan]] takes up the [[Saussure]]an concept of the [[sign]] in his "[[linguistic]] turn" in [[psychoanalysis]]during the 1950s, http://contract-free-ringtonesbut [[subjects]] it to several modifications.hi5During the 1950s [[Lacan]] began to make us of [[Saussure]]'s [[concepts]] but adapted [[them]] in important ways.com contract free ringtones =====Relation between Signifier and Signified=====Firstly, swewhereas [[Saussure]] posited the reciprocal implication between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] (they are as mutually interdependent as two sides of a sheet of paper), http://ringtones-free-canada[[Lacan]] argues that the relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]] is extremely unstable.hi5.com ringtones free Canada =====Primacy of the Signifier=====Secondly, 401755[[Lacan]] asserts the [[existence]] of an order of "pure [[signifiers]], http://mymix-free-ringtones" where [[signifier]]s [[exist]] prior to [[signified]]s; this [[order]] of purely [[logical]] [[structure]] is the [[unconscious]].hi5This amounts to a [[destruction]] of [[Saussure]]'s concept of the [[sign]]; for [[Lacan]], a [[language]] is not composed of [[sign]]s but of [[signifier]]s.com mymix free ringtones, 16603, http =====Saussurean algorithm=====[[Image://tim-mcgraw-free-ringtonSAUSSUREANALGORITHM.hi5.com tim mcgraw free ringtones Canadagif|right|thumb|Saussurean algorithm|The Saussurean algorithm]] To illustrate the contrast between his own views and those of [[Saussure]], [[Lacan]] replaces [[Saussure]]'s diagram of the [[sign]] with an [[Saussurean algorithm|algorithm]] which, 087318[[Lacan]] argues, http://absolutlyshould be attributed to [[Saussure]] -free-cell-phoand is thus now sometimes referred to as the "[[Saussure]]an algorithm.hi5"<ref>{{E}} p.com absolutly free cell phone ringtones149</ref> The '''S''' stands for the [[signifier]], and the '''s''' for the [[signified]]; the [[position]] of the [[signified]] and the [[signifier]] is thus inverted, 94956showing the primacy of the [[signifier]] (which is capitalized, http://whereas the[[signifier]] is reduced to mere lower-click-5-free-ringto[[case]] italic).hi5The arrows and the circle are abolished, representing the [[absence]] of a [[stable]] or fixed relation between [[signifier]] and [[signified]].com The [[bar]] between the click 5 free ringtones[[signifier]] and the [[signified]] no longer represents union but the [[resistance]] inherent in [[signification]]. For [[Lacan]], %this [[algorithm]] defines "the [[topography]] of the [[unconscious]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 163</ref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Enunciation]]* [[Index]]* [[Language]]||* [[Metaphor]]* [[Materialism]]* [[Signification]]||* [[Signified]]* [[Signifying Chain]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Symptom]]{{Also}} == References ==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-),small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC____NOEDITSECTION__
