The Discourse of the Other Is a Symbolic Order

Thomas: I just want to clarify something very quickly about laconian Freudian. There is an unconscious. Everyone agrees that the difference between Freud and the con, it's like how the unconscious works, but they don't have differences about what the unconscious is. Gerard: We learn to articulate our desires through the discourse of the other. The speech of the other is a symbolic order. So when we say, you know if I'm going off on a limb here, but symbolic order doesn't necessarily mean words. It can also mean embodied habits.