Lacan’s “Return” to Freud: The Subject of the Unconscious Cover Image

Lakāna “atgriešanās” pie Freida: Bezapziņas subjekts
Lacan’s “Return” to Freud: The Subject of the Unconscious

Author(s): Ieva Stūre-Stūriņa
Subject(s): Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Psychoanalysis
Published by: Latvijas Universitātes Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts
Keywords: Jacques Lacan; psychanalysis; hermeneutics; constitution of subject;

Summary/Abstract: The Psychoanalysis theory of the subject can be considered in the context with the philosophy of the subject and the hermeneutics of the self. In the Lacan’s psychoanalysis the issues of subjectivity interpret the subject of the unconsciousness with regard to Descartes’ concept of “cogito”. The subject is split between the Ego and the unconsciousness. In the theory of the subjectivity one of the most important issues is relationship between the subject and the (M)Other. In the subjectivity process relevant are three steps in the constitution of the subject: alienation, separation and the traversing of fantasy. In the alienation process subject is the subject of demand. In the seperation process subject is the subject of desire. In the third step of the subjectivity subject is the desiring subject.

  • Issue Year: XXIV/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 165-177
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Latvian