([[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 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]]:
According to Lacan, <blockquote>"The difficulties which this system of [[consciousness]] raises reappear at each level of [[Freud]]'s problems with discussing consciousness return again and again to haunt his theory: theorising."<ref>{{S2}} p.117</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>"The difficulties which this system of consciousness raises reappear at each level of In particular, [[Lacan]] rejects the apparent attempts in [[Freud]]'s theorising."<ref>{{S2}} pwork to link the [[consciousness]]-perception system to the [[ego]], unless this link is carefully theorised.117</ref></blockquote>
If there is a link between the [[ego]] and [[consciousness]], it is in terms of a [[lure]].
In particular, Lacan rejects the apparent attempts in Freud's work to link the The [[illusion]] of a fully [[self-transparent]] [[consciousness-perception system to ]] is subverted by the whole [[egopsychoanalytic]], unless this link is carefully theorisedexperience (see [[cogito]]).
If there <blockquote>"[[Consciousness]] in [[man]] is by essence a link polar tension between an [[ego]] [[alienated]] from the ego and consciousness, it is in terms of a [[luresubject]]and a perception which fundamentally escapes it, a pure percipi."<ref>{{S2}} p.177</ref></blockquote>
The illusion In 1954 [[Lacan]] gives "a [[materialist]] definition of a fully self-transparent consciousness is subverted by the whole psychoanalytic experience (see phenomenon of [[cogitoconsciousness]]). "<ref>{{S2}} p.40-52</ref>
<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>
However, matter is not to be confused with [[nature]].
In 1954 [[Lacan gives "a materialist definition of ]] argues that [[consciousness]] does not evolve from the phenomenon of consciousness."<ref>{{S2}} p[[natural]] [[order]].40-52</ref>
It is radically discontinuous, and its origin is more akin to creation than to evolution.<ref>{{S7}} 213-14; 223</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 subject supposed to Knowknow]].
==See Also==
* [[unconscious]]
==References==
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* PAGES 19-20, 40, 43, 83, 20-3, 71
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