Unary trait: a signifier that represents a subject to another signifier. (54)<\/p>\n
Blog post originally published May 15, 2009. at 10:11<\/em><\/p>\n Proper Name as unary trait: When there is a subject that is constituted as the bearer of this trait, there is a subject-as-meaning, despite the fact that the name itself is meaningless. My name precedes me, and to this extent my place in the linguistic and social Other is given before my birth. This is all my name does \u2014it gives me a place. This meaningless signifer, however, is also the bearer of a string of meanings provided that other signifiers enter into the picture, bringing about an operation similar to what happens in metaphor. Here again, the other signifier at work would be the place in the Other from which I am looked at and possibly desired, for example, the Other’s affirmation of the signifier that gives me a place.\u00a0 So to the extent that I am talked about and desired (or not) by means of this meaningless “trait” existing in most cases before I am born, a discursive place is already carved out for me in this Other<\/strong>.\u00a0 My name functions as the representative point of this “talk,” this knot of signifiers whose consistency makes up the stuff of the subject-as-meaning. Once again, we see that the construction of the subject-as-meaning may thus precede the actual birth of the individual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unary trait: a signifier that represents a subject to another signifier. (54) Blog post originally published May 15, 2009. at 10:11 Proper Name as unary trait: When there is a subject that is constituted as the bearer of this trait, there is a subject-as-meaning, despite the fact that the name itself is meaningless. My name … Continue reading “pluth unary trait”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}