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([[French]]: ''[[conscience]]'')

 [[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>  

 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>