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- French · calque ofsignifiant-maître
- English todaymaster signifier
Calque of French signifiant-maître as used by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
master signifier
Today it means: 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. Full definition →
French signifiant-maître