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Missing Signifier

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Is the Missing Signifier in the Symbolic Order?

Alenka: The idea of the missing signifier is really tied to this paradoxical point that both is in, but it's it's out. And if youve put it in thand it's out and it's out, then it has to be in. But leconte tries to integrate that paradox into his way of thinking about the symbolic order. So we can take the example, i think, of hitchcock films, hawks films, lynch films, let's just say those three. Then we have a set of allo, those are sets of s. And then we have aset of all sets that don't include themselves.

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