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Lacan compares this to the first stage of psychoanalytic treatment, when the analyst forces the analysand to confront the contradictions and gaps in his narrative.
However, just as Socrates then proceeds to draw out the truth from the confused statements of his interlocutor, so also the analyst proceeds to draw out the truth from the analysand's free associations (see .<ref>{{S8, }} p.140). </ref>
Thus Lacan argues that '"psychoanalysis is a dialectical experience' ("<ref>{{Ec, }} p.216)</ref>, since the analyst must engage the analysand in 'a dialectical operation' (Sl, ."<ref>{{S1}} p.278). </ref>
It is only by means of '"an endless dialectical process' " that the analyst can subvert the ego's disabling illusions of permanence and stability, in a manner identical to the Socratic Dialogue (.<ref>Lacan, 1951b: 12).</ref>
For Hegel, the dialectic is both a method of exposition and the structure of historical progress itself.
Thus in [[Phenomenology of Spirit ]] (1807), Hegel shows how consciousness progresses towards absolute knowledge by means of a series of confrontations between opposing elements. Each confrontation is resolved by an operation called the Aufhebung (usually translated as 'sublation') in which a new idea (the synthesis) is born from the opposition between thesis and antithesis; the synthesis simultaneously annuls, preserves and raises this opposition to a higher level.
Each confrontation is resolved by an operation called the ''[[Aufhebung]]'' (usually translated as '[[sublation]]') in which a new idea (the [[synthesis]]) is born from the opposition between [[thesis]] and [[antithesis]]; the [[synthesis]] simultaneously annuls, preserves and raises this opposition to a higher level.
Following [[Kojeve]] [[Lacan]] puts great emphasis on the particular stage of the [[dialectic]] in which the [[master]] confronts the [[slave]], and on the way that [[desire]] is constituted [[dialectically]] by a relationship with the [[desire]] of the [[Other]]. Using the [[DOraDora]] case to illustrate his point, [[Lacan]] shows how [[psychoanalytic treatment]] [[progress]]es towards [[truth]] by a series of [[dialectical]] reversals.<ref>Lacan 1951a.</ref>
[[Lacan]] also makes use of a concept of ''[[Aufhebung]]'' to show hwo the [[symbolic]] [[order]] can simultaneously annul, preserve and raise an [[imaginary]] [[object]] (the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]]) to the status of a [[signfiier]] (the [[symbolic]] [[phallus]]); the [[phallus]] then becomes "the signifier of this ''[Aufhebund]]'' itself, which it inaugurates by its disappearance."<ref>{{E}} p.288</ref>
