Signifiant
by Skai on Feb 10, 2009 04:42:34
Example:
"Cyclists blocked car traffic as part of their
signifiant campaign to force the city to create more bike lanes."
"Dude, trying to
chat up that hot girl you had
no chance with was signifiant!"
master-signifier
by Andy on May 07, 2004 23:42:59
In Lacanian theory, a signifier which stops the
slippage of the signified under the signifier and fixes meaning, thereby forming a stable symbolic order. It is a particular signifier with no signified of its own, which stands in for the "fullness" of the meaning of the symbolic system itself. However, since contingency and lack are taken to be primary in Lacanian theory, it is necessarily arbitrary and is unable to guarantee its own
primacy except through arbitrary and ungrounded violence. It is always haunted by the
return of the Real.
Example:
In my view, this concept is useful but its basis is mistaken. What is repressed is active desire,
held down for fear of punishment, and not some kind of
ontological void.
Lacan is wrong to pose his problems on such a metaphysical level.
Webnovel signifies nothing
by Real Alberto on Jun 06, 2022 01:41:08
Webnovel signifies nothing
Example:
Webnovel signifies nothing