 This process of separation is known as abjection, whereby the child must reject and move away from the mother in order to enter into the world of language, culture, meaning, and the social.This realm of language is called the symbolic and is contrasted with the semiotic in that it is associated with the masculine, the law, and structure.Kristeva departs from Lacan in the idea that even after entering the symbolic, the subject continues to oscillate between the semiotic and the symbolic.