Lacan's Theory of Language

Lacan is drawing on American traditions of semiotics. He's also looking at, of course, French traditions with so sewer everybody talks to the blue in the face about Lacan's relationship to so. And American to say don't forget about Charles Sanders purse. This someone may be many things. It may be the entire universe. Lecans point though is to shift from this notion of signifiers addressed to some ones to people and signifier addressed to other signifiers. Here is lecans very important move is to say that a signifier is that which represents a subject for another signifier. The subject can only be figured in the field of language in theField of signific