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The concept of [[{{Top}}causality]] forms an important thread that runs throughout [[Lacan]]'s entire work. |cause{{Bottom}}

It first appears in the context of the question of the ==Jacques Lacan==The [[causeconcept]] of [[psychosiscausality]], which is a central concern of forms an important thread that runs throughout [[Lacan]]'s doctoral thesis <ref>{{L}} ''De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité''. Paris: Seuil, 1975.</ref>entire [[work]].

==Psychosis==It first appears in the context of the question of the [[Lacancause]] of [[psychosis]] returns to this question in 1946, where the which is a central concern of [[causeLacan]] of 's doctoral [[madnessthesis]] becomes the very essence <ref>{{L}} ''[[Works of all psychical Jacques Lacan|De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité]]''. [[causalityParis]]: Seuil, 1975.</ref>.

==Psychical Causality==[[Lacan]] returns to this question in 1946, where the [[cause]] of [[madness]] becomes the very [[essence]] of all psychical [[causality]]. In the 1946 paper he reiterates his earlier view that a specifically [[psyche|psychical ]] [[cause]] is needed to explain [[psychosis]]; however, he also questions the possibility of defining '"[[psychical' ]]" in [[terms ]] of a simple opposition to the concept of matter, and this leads him, in 1955, to dispense with the simplistic [[notion ]] of '"psychogenesis' ."<ref>{{S3}} p.7</ref>.

In the 1950s [[Lacan]] begins to address ==Science==He argues that the very concept of [[causality]] itself, arguing that it is to be situated on the border between the which underpins all [[symbolicscience]] and the , is itself a non-[[realscientific]]concept; it implies "a mediation between the chain very notion of symbols and cause ... is established on the realbasis of an original wager."<ref>{{S2}} p.192</ref>.

He ==Anxiety==In the [[seminar]] of 1962-3, [[Lacan]] argues that the concept [[true]] [[meaning]] of [[causality]] should be looked for in the phenomenon of [[anxiety]], which underpins all for [[scienceanxiety]], is itself a non-scientific concept; "the very notion of cause ... is established on the basis of an original wager."<ref>{{S2}} p.192</ref>[[doubt]].

==Aristotle==In the 1964, [[seminarLacan]] of 1962-3, uses [[LacanAristotle]] argues that the true 's typology of [[meaningcause]] of s to illustrate the [[causalitydifference]] should be looked for in between the phenomenon of [[anxietysymbolic]], for and the [[anxietyreal]] is the cause of doubt.

He then links this with ==Truth==[[Lacan]] returns to the concept [[subject]] of [[objet petit acausality]] in his 1965-6 [[seminar]], which is now defined as where he distinguishes between [[magic]], [[religion]], [[science]] and [[psychoanalysis]] on the basis to their [[causerelationship]] of to [[desiretruth]], rather than that towards which as [[desirecause]] tends.<ref>{{Ec}} p. 855-77</ref>

In 1964, [[Lacan]] uses [[Aristotle]]'s typology of [[cause]]s to illustrate the difference between the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]]. -- [[Lacan]] returns to the [[subject]] of [[causality]] in his 1965-6 [[seminar]], where he distinguishes between [[magic]], [[religion]], [[science]] and [[psychoanalysis]] on the basis to their relationship to [[truth]] as [[cause]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.855-77</ref> -- [[Lacan]] also plays on the ambiguity of the term, since besides being "that which provokes an effect," a [[cause]] is also "that for which one fights, that which one defends."  [[Lacan]] clearly sees himself as fighting for "the [[Freudian ]] cause," although this fight can only be won when one realises that the [[cause]] of the [[unconscious]] is always "a lost cause."<ref>{{S11}} p.128</ref>.