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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]] and the [[preconscious]]. [[Lacan]] finds [[Freud]]'s remarks on [[consciousness]] far weaker than his formulations on the [[unconscious]].

[[Lacan]] finds Freud's remarks on consciousness far weaker than his formulations on the unconscious; <blockquote>"while While he [Freud] can give a coherent, balanced account of the majority of [[other ]] parts of 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: "The difficulties which this system of consciousness raises reappear at each level of Freud's theorising."<ref>S2, 117</ref>In particular, Lacan rejects the apparent attempts in Freud's work to link the consciousness-perception system to the [[ego]], unless this link is carefully theorised. If there is a link between the ego and consciousness, it is in terms of a [[lure]]; the illusion of a fully self-transparent consciousness is subverted by the whole psychoanalytic experience (see [[cogitoreturn]]). "Consciousness in man is by essence a polar tension between an ego alienated from the subject again and a perception which fundamentally escapes it, a pure percipi."<ref>S2, 177</ref>In 1954 Lacan gives "a materialist definition of the phenomenon of consciousness."<ref>S2, 40-52</ref>However, matter is not again to be confused with nature; Lacan argues that consciousness does not evolve from the natural order; it is radically discontinuous, and its origin is more akin to creation than to evolution.<ref>S7, 213-14; 223</ref>In the 1960s Lacan rethinks the illusion of a self-consciousness (''Selbstbe-wufltsein'') fully present to itself in terms of haunt his concept of the [[Subject Supposed to Knowtheory]].:

PAGES 19===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]], unless this link is carefully theorized. If there is a link between the [[ego]] and [[consciousness]], it is in [[terms]] of a '''[[lure]]'''. The [[illusion]] of a fully [[mirror|self-20transparent]] [[consciousness]] is subverted by the [[whole]] [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment|experience]] (see ''[[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, 43[[materialism|matter]] is not to be confused with [[nature]]. [[Lacan]] argues that [[consciousness]] does not evolve from the [[natural]] [[order]]. It is radically discontinuous, 83, 20and 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]]. ==See Also=={{See}}* ''[[Cogito]]''* [[Ego]]||* [[Materialism]]* [[Mirror stage]]||* [[Nature]]* [[Subject]]||* [[Subject supposed to know]]* [[Unconscious]]{{Also}} ==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-3, 71small"><references/></div>