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Saussure argued that the meaning of a sign "depends on its relation to other words within the system;" for example, to understand an individual word such as "tree," one must also understand the word "bush" and how the two relate to each other. [7] It is this difference from other signs that allows the possibility of a speech community.
For Lacan "the Other must first of all be considered a locus in which speech is constituted," so that the other as another subject is secondary to the other as symbolic order. [52] We can speak of the other as a subject in a secondary sense only when a subject occupies this position and thereby embodies the other for another subject.
The Symbolic (or Symbolic Order of the Borromean knot) [1] is the order in the unconscious that gives rise to subjectivity and bridges intersubjectivity between two subjects [citation needed]; an example is Jacques Lacan's idea of desire as the desire of the Other, maintained by the Symbolic's subjectification of the Other into speech. [2]
Daniel Chandler defines the term as "a signifier with a vague, highly variable, unspecifiable or non-existent signified". [4] The concept of floating signifiers originates with Claude Lévi-Strauss, who identified cultural ideas like mana as "represent[ing] an undetermined quantity of signification, in itself void of meaning and thus apt to receive any meaning".
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Jouissance (pronounced ⓘ) is a French language term held untranslatable into English.. In continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, jouissance is the transgression of a subject's regulation of pleasure.
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A significant other is a partner in an intimate relationship. Significant Other or Significant Others may also refer to: Film and television