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{| style="line-height:2.0em;width:100%;text-align:justify;"|style="width:100%;border:0px solid #cccccc;background-color:#ffffff;vertical-align:top"|{Top}}graphe du désir{{Bottom}}| width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:top;background-color:#ffffff"|-|style="text-align:justify;color:#000;line-height:2.5em;align:justify;"|The [[graph of desire]] is a [[topology|topological model]] of the [[structure]] of [[desire]].

The "[[graph of desire]]" is a [[topology|topographical representation]] -- schema or model -- of the [[structure]] of [[desire]]. ==DevelopmentHistory==[[Jacques Lacan]] first develops began to develop the [[graph of desire]] in his [[Seminar V{{Y}}|the seminar of 1957]]-8[[{{Y}}|58]] in order to illustrate the [[psychoanalytic theoryseminar]] of , ''[[jokeSeminar V|Les formations de l'inconscient]]s''.<ref>[[FreudJacques Lacan|FreudLacan, SigmundJacques]]. ''[[Works Seminar V|Les formations de l'inconscient]]''. [[Seminar V|The Formations of Sigmund Freud|Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious]]," 1905. [[SE{{Y}}|1957]]-[[{{Y}}|58]] VIII.</ref>  The [[graph of desire|graph]] reappears in some of the following [[seminars]], but then all but disappears from [[Lacanseminar]]'s [[Works of Jacques Lacan|work]]. The [[graph of desire|graph]] appears in various forms, although the most well known [[form ]] of it appears in "[[The subversion Subversion of the subject Subject and the dialectic Dialectic of desire Desire in the Freudian unconsciousUnconscious]]."<ref>[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Subversion du sujet et dialectique du désir dans l'inconscient freudien]]." ''[[Écrits]]''. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1966. p.793-827. "[[The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]." [[Ecrits: A Selection]]. Trans. Alan [[Sheridan]]. [[Bruce Fink]]. [[London]]: Tavistock. 1977. New York: W. W. Norton. 2004. p.292-325</ref>

In this paper, [[Lacan]] builds up the [[graph of desire]] in four successive stages -- which represent the constitution of the [[human]] [[subject]] and his [[desirestages]].

The [[double ]] intersection of these two lines illustrates the [[nature ]] of [[time|retroaction]]: the [[message]], at the point marked '''s(A)''' in the [[graph of desire|elementary cell]], is the ''[[point de capiton]]'' determined [[time|retroactively]] by the [[particular ]] [[punctuation]] given to it by the [[Other]], '''A'''.

The [[linguistic|prelinguistic]] [[mythical ]] [[subject]] of pure [[need]], indicated by the [[triangle]], must [[pass ]] through the defiles of the [[signifier]] which produces the [[divided]] [[subject]], '''$'''.

The intermediate stages of the [[graph of desire]] are not meant to show any [[progress|evolution]] or [[development|temporal development]], since the [[graph of desire|graph]] always [[exists ]] as a [[whole]]; they are simply pedagogical devices used by [[Lacan]] in [[order ]] to illustrate the [[structure]] of the [[graph of desire|complete graph]].<ref>{{E}} p.315</ref>

Rather, it represents the "[[logical ]] moments" of the [[birth ]] of a [[speaking]] [[subject]].

In the [[graph of desire|complete completed graph]] there are not one but two [[signifying chain]]s.

The [[structure]] is thus duplicated: the upper part of the [[graph]] is [[structured ]] exactly like the lower part.