master discourse

is language spoken from a seat of raw power and requiring no justification to the subject.

The master must be obeyed-- not because we'll all be better off that way or for some other such rationale-- but because he or she says so. NO justification is given for his or her power: it just is. . . The master must show no weakness, and therefore carefully hides the fact that he or she, like everyone else, is a being of language and has succumbed to symbolic castration: the split between conscious and unconscious brought on by the signifier is veiled in the master's discourse. . .

master discourse, n.Definitions

master discourse