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The term "[[death]]" occurs in various contexts in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]].

<blockquote>"The ===Symbolic Death===[[Death]] is constitutive of the [[symbolic]] [[order]], because the [[symbol]] , by standing in [[place]] of the [[thing]] which it [[symbolization|symbolizes]], is equivalent to the murder [[death]] of the that [[thing]]."<ref>{{E}} p.104</ref></blockquote>:

<blockquote>"The [[symbol]] is the [[murder]] of the [[thing]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 104</ref></blockquote> ====Death of the Subject====

<blockquote>"It is in the signifier and insofar as [[The Subject|the subject ]] articulates a signifying [[chain ]] that he comes up against the fact that he may [[disappear ]] from the chain of what he is."<ref>{{S7}} p.295</ref></blockquote>

The [[signifier]] also puts the [[subject]] beyond [[death]], because "the [[signifier]] already considers him [[dead]], by [[nature ]] it immortalizes him."<ref>{{S3}} p.180</ref>

====Dead Father====[[Death]] in the [[symbolic order]] is related to the [[death]] of the [[Father]] (i.e. the murder of the [[father]] of the [[horde]] in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''<ref>{{F}} (1912-13) ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''; , 1912-13. [[SE]] XIII, 1</ref>); the [[symbolic]] [[father]] is always a [[dead]] [[father]].

 ===Second Death=======First Death====

[[Lacan]] talks [[about ]] the "[[second death]]."<ref>{{S7}} p.211</ref>

The [[death|second death]] is that which prevents the regeneration of the [[dead]] [[body]], "the point at which the very cycles of the transformations of nature are annihilated."<ref>{{S7}} p.248</ref> ===Beauty, Being, Pain===The concept of the [[second death]] is used by [[Lacan]] to formulate ideas on various themes: * beauty - "It is the function of beauty to reveal man's relationship to his own death."<ref>{{S7}} p.260, 299</ref>* the direct relationship to [[being]];<ref>{{S7}} p.285</ref> and * the [[sadistic]] [[fantasy]] of inflicting perpetual [[pain]]<ref>{{S7}} p.295</ref>  ===Between the Two Deaths===The phrase "[[zone between-two-deaths]]" (''[[l'espace de l'entre-deux-morts]]'') designates "the zone in which tragedy is played out."<ref>{{S8}} p.120</ref>  ==Philosophical Death=====Hegel and Heidegger===[[Death]] plays an important role in the philosophical systems of [[Hegel]] and [[Heidegger]], and [[Lacan]] draws on both of these in his theorisation of the role of [[death]] in [[psychoanalysis]].

==="Absolute Master"=Beauty, Being, Pain====From The [[Hegelconcept]] (via of the [[Kojèvesecond death]]), is used by [[Lacan]] takes the idea that to formulate [[deathideas]] on various themes: * beauty - "It is both constitutive the function of [[beauty to reveal man]]'s [[freedomrelationship]] and to his own death."<ref>{{S7}} p. 260, 299</ref>* the direct relationship to [[Master|the absolute Masterbeing]];<ref>{{S7}} p."285</ref>and * the [[Alexandre Kojève|Kojève, Alexandresadistic]] (1947 [1933-39[fantasy]]) ''of inflicting perpetual [[Kojève|Introduction to the Reading of Hegelpain]]'', trans. James H. Nichols Jr., New York and London: Basic Books, 1969. <ref>{{S7}} p.21). 295</ref>

[[Death]] plays a crucial part in ====Between the Two Deaths====The phrase "[[Hegelianzone between-two-deaths]] " (''[[dialecticl'espace de l'entre-deux-morts]] of the [[master]] and '') designates "the zone in which [[slavetragedy]] where it is intimately linked with [[desire]], since the [[master]] only affirms himself for others by means of a [[desire]] for [[death]]played out."<ref>{{ES8}} p.105120</ref>

==="Being-For-Philosophical Death"===From ====Hegel and Heidegger====[[HeideggerDeath]], plays an important [[Lacanrole]] takes in the idea that [[humanphilosophical]] systems of [[existenceHegel]] only takes on and [[meaningHeidegger]] by virtue of the finite limit set by , and [[deathLacan]], so that draws on both of these in his theorisation of the role of [[human]] [[subjectdeath]] is properly a "in [[death|being-for-deathpsychoanalysis]]".

This corresponds to ===="Absolute Master"====From [[Hegel]] (via [[Kojève]]), [[Lacan]] takes the [[idea]] that [[death]] is both constitutive of [[man]]'s view that [[freedom]] and "[[Master|the absolute Master]]."<ref>[[Alexandre Kojève|Kojève, Alexandre]] ''[[analysandKojève|Introduction to the Reading of Hegel]] should come'', via trans. [[James]] H. Nichols Jr., New York and [[London]]: Basic Books, 1969. [1933-39] p. 21</ref> [[Death]] plays a crucial part in the [[Hegelian]] [[dialectic]] of the [[master]] and the [[treatment|analytic processslave]] where it is intimately linked with [[desire]], to assume his own since the [[master]] only affirms himself for [[others]] by means of a [[desire]] for [[mortalitydeath]].<ref>{{E}} p.104-5105</ref>

In his comparison between [[psychoanalytic treatment]] and the [[game ]] of bridge, [[Lacan]] describes the [[analyst]] as playing the [[position ]] of the "dummy" (in [[French]], ''le mort''; literally, "the dead person").

<blockquote>"The analyst intervenes concretely in the dialectic of [[analysis ]] by pretending that he is dead. . . he makes death [[present]]."<ref>{{E}} p.140</ref></blockquote>

The question which constitutes the [[structure]] of [[obsessional neurosis]] concerns [[death]]; it is the question "Am I dead or alive?"<ref>{{S3}} ppp.179-80</ref>