ABSTRACT
Psychoanalytic knowledge can be found as situated in the structure of the discourse as a producer of analysis. Psychoanalytic experience revolves around the body that does not have a body and around the real knowledge of that lack. A theory, and psychoanalysis was no exception, needs an interpretation, and the literary one is always nearest as it makes the best use of the imaginary means. Psychoanalysis is the only profession—for it is not only a formation but also a profession—whereby the subject's responsibility is an effect of the unconscious. Initially, the unconscious was presented through diverse metaphors that primarily included that of archaeology, of ruins, of architecture, and of the dark and hidden sides. For Jacques Lacan the discourse of the unconscious was a site of intimacy that he called, and for a reason, extimacy. The truth is extimate or internally excluded, which means that its discovery, like that of the unconscious, involves the other, the neighbour, the analyst.
