Secondly, it attempts to construct a symbolic female order, reinterpreting these figures from a new perspective.
But for Lacan, the unconscious exists in the failures of communication which the symbolic order involves.
To the contrary, language, the intricate symbolic order, constitutes every subject.
Just a single sentence but open to so many readings, especially when placed in Blake's symbolic order of flowers, sickness, bug-life and his own philosophy.
That doesn't bode well for their capacities to crack more obscure symbolic orders.
The transcendentalists believe that the symbolic order of civilization separated us from the natural order of the world.
It is neither object nor subject; the abject is situated, rather, at a place before we entered into the symbolic order.
The abject must also be disguised from desire (which is tied up with the meaning-structures of the symbolic order).
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other and thus belongs to the symbolic order.
Lacan associated the Other with the symbolic order and language.