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==Topographical Model==
In the so-called "[[topographical model]]," [[Freud]] isolates [[consciousness]] as one of the parts of the [[psyche]], along with the [[unconscious]] and the [[preconscious]].
<blockquote>"The difficulties which this system of [[consciousness]] raises reappear at each level of [[Freud]]'s theorising."<ref>{{S2}} p.117</ref></blockquote>
==Ego==
In particular, [[Lacan]] rejects the apparent attempts in [[Freud]]'s work to link the [[consciousness]]-perception system to the [[ego]], unless this link is carefully theorised.
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]] 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> --
==Materialism==
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 creation than to evolution.<ref>{{S7}} p. 213-14; 223</ref> --
==Subject Supposed to Know==
In the 1960s [[Lacan]] rethinks the [[illusion]] of a [[consciousness|self-consciousness]] (''[[consciousness|Selbstbe-wufltsein]]'') fully present to itself in terms of his concept of the [[subject supposed to know]].
==See Also==
{{See}}* ''[[unconsciousCogito]]''* [[Ego]]||* [[Materialism]]* [[Mirror stage]]||* [[Nature]]* [[Subject]]||* [[Subject supposed to know]]* [[Unconscious]]{{Also}}
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