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Elements of the graph The signifying chain begins in a linguistic sign (S) and progresses to a signification (S'), or a linguistic meaning. It can be expressed sententially and has a duration. The vector of desire is a representation of the volition and will of the split or barred subject (S). Unlike the signifying chain, the vector of desire is expressed metaphorically, and has no duration. It is necessary to bear in mind the special conception of the subject Lacan means by the (S) symbol. The barred subject is the internally conflicted result of the processes of individuation that begin in babyhood. In Lacan's account of individuation, the infant must respond to the loss of symbiosis with the mother by creating a symbol of this lack. In doing so the infant is constrained by the always-already present structures of a natural language. There is a certain relief in the summoning of a symbolically present 'mother', but the experience of the mother who returns to the infant as someone-signified-by-the-word-'mother' is nevertheless one of absolute, irremediable loss. Mother - and the world - is now mediated by the Symbolic order and the exigencies of language. With this in mind, the crossing of the two pathways in the graph of desire can be understood to connote interference and constraint. Desire for the primordial object is not fulfilled except through the constraints of the signifying chain. The vector of desire is metaphorical, substituting various objects for the absolut...

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