=Introduction=THE UNCONSCIOUS AS GAP OR RUPTURE
In Seminar XI (1964) Lcan sought to distinguish his own conception The [[unconscious]] must "be apprehended in its [[experience]] of the unconscious from rupture, between [[perception]] and [[consciousness]], in that [[time|nontemporal locus]]... [[Freud's and more systematically formualte what is ''beyond'' language and structure]] calls [[scene|another scene]]."<ref>{{S11}}: 56</ref>
He also repalced The [[unconscious]] manifests itself at those moments in which [[processes]] beyond [[consciousness|conscious thought]] disrupt [[speech]], points when [[language]] fails. [[Lacan]] defines the linguistic categories [[unconscious]] in [[terms]] of "impediment", "failure" and "[[splitting]]". The [[metaphorunconscious]] and ''is'' precisely this [[gap]] or [[metonymygap|rupture]] with in the new concepts of [[alienationsymbolic]] and [[separationsignifyin chain|chain]].
The processes of alienation and separation are closely linked to the psychoanalytic conception of desire and the drive.
=Formations of the Unconscious=
==The Unconscious as Gap or Rupture==
==The Unconscious That the unconscious is Structured [[structured]] like a Language==language is Lacan's central [[thesis]] and probably his most influential contribution to [[psychoanalysis]]
The [[unconscious]] is governed by the rules of the [[signifier]] as it is [[language]]
==The Unconscious is We can only [[know]] the Discourse of the Other==unconscious through speech and language; therefore.
the unconscious is constituted through the [[subject]]'s articulation in [[the symbolic]] [[order]]. The [[Lacanian]] unconscious is not an [[individual]] unconscious, in the [[sense]] that Freud speaks of the unconscious
=Alienation and Separation=The Lacanian unconscious is rather the effect of a trans-individual [[symbolic order]] upon [[The Subject|the subject]]. We can draw from this [[three]] related theses:
# The unconscious is not [[biological]] but is something that signifies.
# The unconscious is the effect - the impact - upon the subject of the trans-individual symbolic order.
# The unconscious is structured like a language.
=Fink argues that the Lacanian unconscious is not only structured like a language but is language, insofar as it is language that makes up the unconscious. This involves us in rethinking, however, what we mean by language. Language, for Lacan, designates not simply [[verbal]] speech or written [[text]] but any signifying [[system]] that is based upon differential relations. The unconscious is structured like a language in the sense that it is a signifying [[process]] that involves coding and decoding, or ciphering and deciphering. The unconscious comes into [[being]] in [[The Lacanian Subject=Symbolic|the symbolic]] order in the gap between signifier and [[signified]], through the sliding of the signified beneath the signifier and the failure of [[meaning]] to be fixed (see Chapter 2). In short, the unconscious is something that signifies and must be deciphered.
=The Drive=
THE [[Unconscious is the discourse of the Other|UNCONSCIOUS IS THE DISCOURSE OF THE OTHER]]
=''Hamlet'' and the Tragedy of Desire=
[[Lacan]] defines the [[unconscious]] as the "[[discourse]] of the [[Other]]."<ref>* "[[Subversion du sujet et dialectique du désir dans l'inconscient freudien]]." ''[[Écrits]]''. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 1966: 793-827 ["[[The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious]]." Trans. [[Alan Sheridan]] ''[[Écrits: A Selection]]''. [[London]]: Tavistock, 1977; New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1977: 292-325]. </ref>
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