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A transition from imaginary order inholding Lacan's mirror phase to a symbolic order

Critical Reading Starting with the epigraph of Aynalar bakma aynalar fenalık denizi sonsuz olanı düşün artık p 5 from Ahmet Muhip Dıranas narration of Fehmi K ve Acayip Serüvenleri reminds a transition from imaginary order inholding Lacan's mirror phase to a symbolic order Arıkan 2015 p 386 Lacan synthesizes the linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure describing Freud's unconscious concept as a system of indigenous representations based on the symbolic order on which the language and discourse are founded in the unconscious Saussure uses the linguistic theory of signs to describe the overlapping of the unconscious with the language system and says It is structured as an unconscious language Lacan 1977 p 20 According to Lacan as it is in the language unconscious interpretation works through the indicative and indicated and this process starts from the moment that baby enters the language All of the beings who step into the language and then become the subject of the laws of its symbol Unconscious established by the influence of the word on the subject this is the dimension at which the subject is determined in the development of verbal influences as a result unconscious is constructed like a language Lacan 1977 p 149 


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