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According to Lacan we cannot know waht the unconscious is.
Indeed, it is not a thing as such but a hypothesis; we cannot know the unconscious, but only deduce it from a subject's speech.
We can deduce that there is "knowledge", an X, that exists elsewhere.
In this sense, the unconscious manifests itself in the symbolic order and emerges through the subject's encounter with a trans-individual symbolic order.
There can be no unconscious without an Other.
The unconscious depends upon the existence of an Other - an interlocutor, reader or analyst who can depiher its inscriptions.
SImiarly the subject of the unconscious, the subject of desire, is not th esame as an indiviudal human being, but something that is constituted in the gap between the signifier and the signified.
The subject is the subject of the signifier insofar as it is marked by language.
At the same time, the subject is the breach in the signifying chain - the gap that opens up between the symbolic and the real, through which the drive manifests itself.
