of the subject."

Lacan's concept of the symbolic "owes much to a key event in the rise of structuralism...the publication of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship in 1949.... In many ways, the symbolic is for Lacan an equivalent to Lévi-Strauss's order of culture:" a language-mediated order of culture. Therefore, "Man speaks...but it is because the symbol has made him man" which "superimposes the kingdom of culture on