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The concept ==Psychical Causality==[[Lacan]] returns to this question in 1946, where the [[cause]] of [[madness]] becomes the very [[essence]] of all psychical [[causality]] forms an important thread . In the 1946 paper he reiterates his earlier view that runs throughout a specifically [[Lacanpsyche|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]]'s entire workof "psychogenesis."<ref>{{S3}} p. 7</ref>.

It first appears in ==Symbolic and Real==In the context 1950s [[Lacan]] begins to address the very concept of [[causality]] itself, arguing that it is to be situated on the question of border between the [[causesymbolic]] of and the [[psychosisreal]], which is ; it implies "a central concern mediation between the [[chain]] of [[Lacansymbols]] and [[The Real|the real]]'s doctoral thesis ."<ref>{{LS2}} ''De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité''. Paris: Seuil, 1975p.192</ref>.

==Science==He argues that the concept of [[Lacancausality]] returns to this question in 1946, where the which underpins all [[causescience]] of , is itself a non-[[madnessscientific]] becomes concept; "the very essence notion of all psychical [[causality]]cause ... is established on the basis of an original wager."<ref>{{S2}} p. 192</ref>.

==Anxiety==In the 1946 paper he reiterates his earlier view [[seminar]] of 1962-3, [[Lacan]] argues that a specifically psychical the [[causetrue]] is needed to explain [[psychosismeaning]]; however, he also questions the possibility of defining 'psychical' [[causality]] should be looked for in terms of a simple opposition to the concept phenomenon of matter[[anxiety]], and this leads him, in 1955, to dispense with for [[anxiety]] is the simplistic notion cause of 'psychogenesis' <ref>{{S3}} p.7</ref>[[doubt]].

==Aristotle==In the 1950s 1964, [[Lacan]] begins to address the very concept uses [[Aristotle]]'s typology of [[causalitycause]] itself, arguing that it is s to be situated on illustrate the border [[difference]] between the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]]; it implies "a mediation between the chain of symbols and the real."<ref>{{S2}} p.192</ref>.

He argues that ==Truth==[[Lacan]] returns to the concept [[subject]] of [[causality]] in his 1965-6 [[seminar]], where he distinguishes between [[magic]], [[religion]], which underpins all [[science]], is itself a non-scientific concept; "the very notion of cause ... is established and [[psychoanalysis]] on the basis of an original wagerto their [[relationship]] to [[truth]] as [[cause]]."<ref>{{S2Ec}} p.192855-77</ref>.

In the [[seminar]] of 1962-3, [[Lacan]] argues that the true [[meaning]] of [[causality]] should be looked for in the phenomenon of [[anxiety]], for [[anxiety]] is the cause of doubt.  He then links this with the concept of [[objet petit a]], which is now defined as the [[cause]] of [[desire]], rather than that towards which [[desire]] tends. -- 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>.