{"id":3924,"date":"2009-10-07T14:14:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T19:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=3924"},"modified":"2011-10-25T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:16:04","slug":"pluth-signifiers-signified-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/07\/pluth-signifiers-signified-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"pluth signifiers generate a signified effect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pluth, Ed. Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan’s theory of the subject<\/em> New York: SUNY Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

Certainly, unlike a sign, a signifier is not fixed to a particular<\/em> object, but in its inclusion withn a system of other signifiers there is still an extreme form of reference at work. A signifier’s reference is not to a specific object or to a specific sign but to all other signifiers, or to the mere fact that signifiers exist (26).<\/p>\n

According to Lacan’s view, there are nothing but signifiers and signified effects <\/strong>in language (29).<\/p>\n

The signifier then is a purely meaningless and purely differential unity, and … not self-sufficient but hyper-referential.\u00a0 As such, it is also distinguished from the sign, whose reference is more or less fixed.<\/p>\n

Although Lacan rejects the Saussurean notion of the sign \u2014 a union of signifier and signified \u2014 this does not prevent him from granting that some sort of signified effect<\/strong> is an important aspect of language.\u00a0 Although there may never be a strict union of signifer and signified, signifiers, according to Lacan, give the impression<\/em> that there is meaning somewhere, however elusive it may be.\u00a0 In fact, this is precisely what signifiers do: they give an impression<\/em> of meaning. (30)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A signifier is, moreover, meaningless.<\/strong> Since Lacan rejects the notion that a signifier and signified (meaning) are united in a single unit, meaning is never ultimately pinned to a signifier.<\/strong> So whatever meaning is, it is not reducible to or identifiable with a particular signifier<\/strong> (30).
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According to Lacan,\u00a0 signifiers generate a signified effect<\/strong> or meaning effect that cannot itself be situated within the order of signifiers.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pluth, Ed. Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan’s theory of the subject New York: SUNY Press, 2007. Certainly, unlike a sign, a signifier is not fixed to a particular object, but in its inclusion withn a system of other signifiers there is still an extreme form of reference at work. A signifier’s reference is not … Continue reading “pluth signifiers generate a signified effect”<\/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":[24,119,15,106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lacan","category-language","category-subjectivity","category-the-act","category-the-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924","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=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8496,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions\/8496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}