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<blockquote>"The difficulties which this system of [[consciousness]] raises reappear at each level of [[Freud]]'s theorising."<ref>{{S2}} p.117</ref></blockquote>
===Consciousness and the Ego===
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]]'').
<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>
===Consciousness and Materialism===
In 1954 [[Lacan]] gives "a [[materialist]] definition of the phenomenon of [[consciousness]]."<ref>{{S2}} p.40-52</ref>
[[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>
===Subject Supposed to Know===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]].
==See Also==
