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The [[graph of desire]] is a [[topology|topographical representation]] of the [[structure]] of [[desire]].
[[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]]. ''Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious. SE VIII. 1905.</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]].
The first of these stages in the "elementary cell" of the [[graph of desire|graph]].<ref>{{E}} p.303</ref>
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