master signifier

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A signifier, i.e. a linguistic sign, with no determinate content beyond itself, serving as a nodal point dominating and grounding the content of a chain of other signifiers.
    — The same reversal that gives rise to a new Master-Signifier is at work in ideology: in anti-Semitism, all fears (of economic crisis, of moral degradation …) are exchanged for fear of the Jew […] And is not the same logic also discernible in a horror film like Spielberg’s Jaws? I fear the shark, my friend, and have no other fears. …

词形变化

master signifiers plural Master-Signifier alternative master-signifier alternative

词源

Calque of French signifiant-maître as used by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
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