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[[French]] [[psychoanalyst]] [[Jacques Lacan]] argued that there were '''four''' fundamental types of '''discourse'''.
In the 1960s Lacan theorized the four discourses on the basis of a minute study of the social field that each discourse both reveals and conceals, because he wanted to ensure the transmission of psychoanalysis. He certainly knew that the discourses of the master and the university had existed for a much longer time. He credited Freud with having discovered the discourse of the hysteric, but argued that Freud had not known how to define the discourse of the analyst. So Lacan attempted to establish this discourse by defining its occurrence and its effects and by positing its limits so that analysis could be developed in a community and be taught in the community on both the theoretical and clinical levels. Lacan considered the discourse of the analyst to be one of his original contributions to psychoanalysis.
==newReferences==<references/># Lacan, Jacques. (1970). Radiophonie. Scilicet, 2-3, 55-99.# ——. (1991). Le séminaire, livre XVII: L'envers de la psychanalyse (1969-1970). Paris: Seuil.# ——. (1998). On feminine sexuality, the limits of love and knowledge: The seminar, book XX, enco
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