Examples of using Signifier in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Is it a signifier of comprehension?
The alphabet thus embraces the arbitrariness of the sign by considering the signifier independently of its meaning.
The signifier of her desire in the body of the Other.
Then it is perforated by a signifier writing down its indelible mark.
A signifier for extreme culture, the dolly is assigned to protect the social and cultural networks currently under siege.
Then it is perforated by a signifier who inscribe his indelible mark.
The signifier“crisis” refers, etymologically, to a critical moment of upheaval and also to a judgement with respect to a decision to be taken.
It involves the transformation of blood from a signifier of death to a signifier of life.
Today this signifier is part of common discourse.
What changes with the notion of discourse is the idea that the relationship signifier/jouissance is a primitive and primal relation.
She finds the signifier of her desire in the body of the Other to whom she addresses her demand for love.
A component of nonsensical libidinous corporeality that is created by using signifiers, but not represented by means of the signifier.
At the same time, the object a is part of the armature of the fantasy, it lies at the heart of the drive,and it possesses certain properties of the signifier.
In Lacanian language, all signifiers are interrelated in a chain of pursuers and the pursued, but one signifier has a different status: the phallus, the father, the law.
We must thus define our use of it,while allowing ourselves the freedom to grasp all the forms in which this signifier appears in culture.
In the discourse of the master(see Figure 2), a master signifier(S1) is formulated by the agent, and imposed onto the other who is presumed to function by means of knowledge(S2).
Such questioning can pass the level of meaning,where lie the concepts that they defend themselves or fight to the level of the signifier, to say it in words saussureanas.
Unlike pictographic or ideographic scripts, phonetic writing represents the signifier of language(its material sound) rather than the signified(its conceptual meaning or‘idea').
In this distinction between body and flesh, the body shows itself to be something thatis able to flesh out the locus of the Other of the signifier as a surface of inscription.
The fact that our culture developed aphonetic writing systemone which represents the material signifier in isolation from the sacred signified-is indicative of our primary alienation from the spoken language.
As you know, the symptom as a formation of the unconscious structured as a language is a metaphor, it's an effect of meaning,induced by the substitution of one signifier for another.
Not that the word'writing' has ceased to designate the signifier of the signifier, but it appears, strange as it may seem, that'signifier of the signifier' no longer defines accidental doubling and fallen secondarity.
The city lived in a sort of everyday present. it had no need to believe in itself as a London, or an Athens,or even a signifier of the New World, like a Sydney, or a Los Angeles.
Lacan adds that the letter writes the one of the unconscious,that is to say the one of a signifier which, transformed into a letter, has an effect of condensation of a jouissance that, this time, is not a jouissance of deciphering but rather a jouissance of fixity.
We can take our bearings from the canonical example of the Fort/ Da,where Lacan shows at the start how the subject of the signifier dominates jouissance, and becomes the master of jouissance.
This symptom as ciphering, articulated through the signifying chain S1-S2, is an ordering of the signifier, possibly an extraction or a substitution of a privileged signifier, which allows for a localisation of jouissance and opens it to signification.
The artists(as well as the curator) are conscious of the action itself and its significance in the socio-cultural context, as an act of self-effacement,of"Adding to Subtract," which becomes the most noteworthy signifier of the artistic and curatorial performance.