The Symbolic
Term in Lacanian Psychoanalysis / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.