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The [[unconscious]] manifests itself at those moments in which processes beyond [[consciousness|conscious thought]] disrupt [[speech]], points when [[language]] fails. [[Lacan]] defines the [[unconscious]] in terms of "impediment", "failure" and "splitting". The [[unconscious]] ''is'' precisely this [[gap]] or [[gap|rupture]] in the [[symbolic]] [[signifyin chain|chain]].