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The Symbolic
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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] In the later psychoanalytic theory of Lacan, it is linked by the sinthome to the Imaginary and the Real.
- ^ Thurston, Luke, "Ineluctable Nodalities: On the Borromean Knot", in: Dany Nobus (ed.), Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Other Press, pp. 144-145.
- ^ Julien, Philippe (1994). Jacques Lacan's Return to Freud: The Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary. Translated by Beck Simiu, Devra. New York University Press. p. 55. ISBN 0-8147-4198-3.
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