ABSTRACT
Firmly ruling out any psychologizing orientation for psychoanalysis, since he criticizes its danger of objectifying the individual, Lacan suggests, in his presentation to a conference of Romance-language psychoanalysts in 1951. A conception of the Freudian experience that is characterized by a sort of dialogue; in this dialogue, the subject is constituted by a discourse whose only law is that of truth, which introduces a change into reality. Lacan reads Freud with Lévi-Strauss and makes the exchange of women the place where Dora's unconscious mission is expressed. According to the Lacan of 1951, what Freud lacked in order to situate himself better in Dora's analysis was the theory of the mirror stage. The function of the psychoanalyst, as Lacan explains, "presuppose[s] history as its very principle". The analytic discipline is "the one that had reconstructed the bridge between modern man and ancient myths". In Lacan's work, there are many ways of defining Freud's discovery and its denial.
