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Structure (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a kind of organization present only in language (be that the language of the unconscious, of bodies, or of things).

Structure (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠defined by the nature of certain atomic elements which account both for the formation of wholes and the variation of their parts.

A Structure (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠necessarily unconscious -every structure is an infrastructure, a micro-structure. A structure is not actual, in a way, not actual, what is actual is what the structure constitutes when it is incarnated.

Structure (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a thing having nothing to do with an essence: It is more a combinatory formula [une combinatoire] supporting formal elements which by themselves have neither form, nor signification, nor representation, nor content, nor given empirical reality, nor hypothetical functional model, nor intelligibility behind appearances.

Structure (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a thing having nothing to do with a form: For structure is not at all defined by an autonomy of the whole, by a preeminence [pregnance] of the whole over its parts, by a gestalt which would operate in the real and in perception.