Co-articulated consonant consonant such as is doubly or secondarily articulated. In some English dialects, for example, is a labialized velar that could be transcribed as , but the Japanese is closer to a true labial-velar, . It is common usage to restrict the letter to the former. The glottis controls phonation, and works simultaneously with many consonants. It is not normally considered an articulator, and an ejective such as , with simultaneous closure of the velum and glottis, is not normally considered to be a co-articulated consonant. Co-articulated consonant Co-articulated consonants or complex consonants are consonants produced with two simultaneous places of
The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud language is not a superstructure'. Lacan uses his concept of the letter to distance himself from the Jungian approach to symbols and the unconscious. Whereas Jung believes that there is a collective unconscious which works with symbolic archetypes, Lacan insists that we must read the productions of the unconscious "à la lettre" - in other words, literally to the letter (or, more specifically, the concept of the letter which Lacan's essay seeks to introduce). In Freud's theory of dreams, the individual's unconscious takes advantage of the weakened ego during sleep in order to produce thoughts which have been censored during