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==Jacques Lacan=====Sigmund Freud===In the so-called '"[[topographical model']]", [[Freud ]] isolates [[consciousness ]] as one of the parts of the [[psyche]], along with the UNCONSCIOUs [[unconscious]] and the [[preconscious]]. [[Lacan ]] finds [[Freud]]'s remarks on [[consciousness ]] far weaker than his formulations on the [[unconscious; 'while ]]. <blockquote>"While he [Freud] can give a coherent, balanced account of the majority of [[other ]] parts of thepsychic the [[psychic]] [[apparatus]], when it's a question of consciousness, he always encounters mutually contradictory [[conditions' (]]."<ref>{{S2, l 17)}} p. 117</ref></blockquote> According to [[Lacan]], [[Freud]]'s problems with discussing [[consciousness ]] [[return ]] again and again to haunt his [[theory]]: ' <blockquote>"The difficulties which this [[system ]] of [[consciousness ]] raises reappear at each level of [[Freud]]'s theorising' (."<ref>{{S2, }} p.117). </ref></blockquote> ===Consciousness and the Ego===In [[particular]], [[Lacan ]] rejects the [[apparent ]] attempts in [[Freud]]'s [[work ]] to link the [[consciousness|consciousness-perception system ]] to the EGo[[ego]], unless this link is carefully theorisedtheorized. If there is a link between the [[ego ]] and [[consciousness]], it is in [[terms ]] of a '''[[lure; the ]]'''. The [[illusion ]] of a fully [[mirror|self-transparent ]] [[consciousness ]] is subverted by the [[whole ]] [[psychoanalytic ]] [[treatment|experience ]] (see cociro''[[cogito]]''). ' <blockquote>"[[Consciousness ]] in [[man ]] is by [[essence ]] a polar tension between an [[ego ]] [[alienated ]] from the [[subject ]] and a [[perception ]] which fundamentally escapes it, a pure ''percipi' ('."<ref>{{S2, }} p. 177).</ref></blockquote> ===Consciousness and Materialism===In 1954 [[Lacan ]] gives '"a [[materialist ]] definition of the phenomenon of [[consciousness' (]]."<ref>{{S2, }} p.40-52). </ref> However, [[materialism|matter ]] is not to be confused with [[nature; ]]. [[Lacan ]] argues that [[consciousness ]] does not evolve from the [[natural ]] [[order; it ]]. It is radically discontinuous, and its origin is more akin to [[development|creation ]] than to [[development|evolution (]].<ref>{{S7, }} p. 213-14; 223).</ref> ===Subject Supposed to Know===In the 1960s [[Lacan ]] rethinks the [[illusion ]] of a [[consciousness|self-consciousness ]] (''[[consciousness|Selbstbe-wufltsein]]'') fully [[time|present ]] to itself in terms of his [[concept ]] of the SUBJECT SUPPOSED TO KNOW[[subject supposed to know]]. ==See Also=={{See}}* ''[[Cogito]]''* [[Ego]]||* [[Materialism]]* [[Mirror stage]]||* [[Nature]]* [[Subject]]||* [[Subject supposed to know]]* [[Unconscious]]{{Also}} ==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Sigmund Freud]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]]{{OK}} __NOTOC__