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([[French]]: ''[[conscience]]'')
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; . <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: <blockquote>"The difficulties which this system of consciousness raises reappear at each level of Freud's theorising."<ref>{{S2, }} p.117</ref></blockquote>
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 . The illusion of a fully self-transparent consciousness is subverted by the whole psychoanalytic 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> In 1954 Lacan gives "a materialist definition of the phenomenon of consciousness."<ref>{{S2, }} p.40-52</ref> However, matter is not 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 his concept of the [[Subject Supposed to Know]].
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