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...re]] is expressed through the associative and [[combinatory]] links of the signifier and is repeated in a kind of succession that sets up a chain reaction. ...ng which the [[Name]]-of-the-[[Father]] signifiers are substituted for the signifier of the desire for the [[mother]]. From then on, [[conscious]] and unconscio

...in the smallest [[signifier]]." Woman is [[absent]] from the field of the signifier. ...s to "the marked circle of the field of the [[Other]]," it is the [[Master-Signifier]]. S2 is the "battery of [[signifiers]], already there" at the [[place]] wh

...e the primal [[introjection]] of a [[signifier]] as the inscription of a [[unary]] [[trait]] (<i>trait [[unaire]]</i>)" (p. 73).</p>

Parade of the [[signifier]] Signifier

...ues [[Lacan]], the [[unary]] [[trait]] is the elementary [[form]] of the [[signifier]] as pure [[difference]] that supports [[symbolic]] identification. ...nized this single trait as a signifier. Or more precisely, insofar as this signifier is isolated and is not part of a [[chain]] of [[signifiers]], it is first a

...tification," involves an ideal signifier—an insignia of the Other or a [[unary]] trait—as the nucleus of the [[ego-ideal]] that the subject depends on. ...up to the mirror in [[order]] to confirm that the image is his. Behind the signifier of the ego-ideal are the [[Name]]-of-the-[[Father]] and [[the symbolic]] [[

...tification," involves an ideal signifier—an insignia of the Other or a [[unary]] trait—as the nucleus of the [[ego-ideal]] that the subject depends on. ...up to the mirror in [[order]] to confirm that the image is his. Behind the signifier of the ego-ideal are the [[Name]]-of-the-[[Father]] and [[the symbolic]] [[

==The Cut and the Signifier== ...nifier: A cut allows the lost object to fall away. He called this cut the "unary trait."

[[Lacan]] takes the term '[[signifier]]' from the work of the Swiss [[linguist]], [[Ferdinand de Saussure]]. According to [[Saussure]], the [[signifier]] is the phonological element of the [[sign]]; not the actual sound itself,

...n]] allows these structures and exchanges to be analyzed as exchanges of [[signifier]]s. Although the exchange of [[signifier]]s in [[speech]] is an obvious example of [[symbolic|symbolic exchange]], [

: See also [[Signifier of the lack in the Other]] :: [[signifier]] of, 28, 113

...lently reduced to a "minimal difference." That is to say, what is a Master-Signifier? In the very last pages of his monumental Second World War, Winston Churchi ...of the Master. The Master adds no new positive content - he merely adds a signifier which all of a sudden turns disorder into order, into "new harmony," as Rim