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{{TopTopp}}conscience{{Bottom}}  ==Sigmund Freud=====Topographical Model===In the so-called "'''[[topographical modelconscience]]]]'''", |-|| [[FreudGerman]] isolates [[consciousness]] as one of the parts of the : ''[[psycheBewußtheit]], along with the '''|-|| [[unconsciousGerman]]''' and the ': ''[[preconscious]]'''. Gewissen{{Bottom}} <!-- Bewußstein -->

===Consciousness and 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]]. <blockquote>"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}} p.117</ref></blockquote>

<blockquote>"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}} 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|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-transparent]] [[consciousness]] is subverted by the [[whole]] [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment|experience]] (see ''[[cogito]]'').

The [[illusion]] of a fully [[mirror|self-transparent]] [[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>

In 1954 [[Lacan]] gives "a [[materialist]] definition of the phenomenon of [[consciousness]]."<ref>{{S2}} p.40-52</ref>  However, [[materialism|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 [[development|creation]] than to [[development|evolution]].<ref>{{S7}} p. 213-14; 223</ref>

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]].