Transition in the Theory of Signifier from Meaning to Jouissance : Based on Lacan’s Consideration of the Oedipus Complex

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  • 意味から享楽へのシニフィアン理論の変遷 : Lacan におけるエディプス・コンプレックス論をもとに
  • イミ カラ キョウラク エ ノ シニフィアン リロン ノ ヘンセン Lacan ニ オケル エディプス コンプレックスロン オ モト ニ

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This paper considers the transition in Lacan’s theory of signifier from meaning to jouissance in his consideration of the Oedipus complex. At first, Lacan reconceptualized the Saussurian concept of signifier in his own manner, in which the nature of signifier was related to the Freudian phallus, which played the crucial role in the Oedipus complex. Later, Lacan clearly distinguishes the Oedipus complex from castration, which led to consideration of the origin of signifier in relation to jouissance. This introduced an entirely new relationship between the Symbolic and the Real, and the essential ambiguity of signifier is then doubled. －On the one hand, it stems from the gap in meaning, that is, between signifier and signified, and on the other, the gap in speaking itself, that is, between signifier and jouissance. From these consequences, two clinical concepts are reconsidered: interpretation and transference. Moreover, this primitive mode of language in subject is termed lalangue, and this concept evidently shows Lacan’s rejection of all other linguistics.

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