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=Introduction=
In Seminar XI (1964) Lcan Lacan sought to distinguish his own conception of the unconscious from Freud's and more systematically formualte what is ''beyond'' language and structure.
He also repalced the linguistic categories of [[metaphor]] and [[metonymy]] with the new concepts of [[alienation]] and [[separation]].
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[[Structuralism]] considers the [[[subject]] as merely the 'effect' of [[symbolic]] [[structure]]s.
For [[Lacan]], the [[subject]] is not reducible to an effect of [[language]] or the [[symbolic]] [[order]].
Instead, he seeks to locate the constitution of the [[subject]] in relation to the [[symbolic]].
[[Structuralism]] implies that a [[structure]] is always complete.
[[Lacan]] argues that the structure (of the [[symbolic]] [[order]]) is never complete, that there is always something left over, an excess that exceeds the symbolic.
What exceeds the symbolic is the subject and the object.
In Seminar XI (1964), Lacan formulates (his own conception of the [[unconscious]] as distinct from [[Freud]]'s) what is ''beyond'' [[language]] and [[structure]].
He also replaced the [[linguistic]] categories of [[metaphor]] and [[metonymy]] with the new concepts of [[alienation]] and [[separation]].
The processes of alienation and separation are closely linked to the psychoanalytic conception of desire and the drive.
=Formations of the Unconscious=
