ABSTRACT
Jacques Lacan went on to elaborate the superego at the level of the other as a place of language that impacts on the body, leaving traces there from the start. Superego as maternal tries to impose this dissatisfaction as satisfying by way of an instruction, although following a rule does not have to be pleasant or satisfactory. The fundamental being-guilty is for Martin Heidegger the basis of Dasein, which is also the neurotic's secret, revealed under the term of wanting, wanting to be and wanting to have conscience. Lacan defined guilt as a way of giving up on one's desire or turning away from it. Guilt emerges as a primary position of the subject as divided between alienation in relation to the master signifier and the lack-of-conscience. Acting in accordance with one's desire and with impunity is Lacan's response to Heidegger's presupposition of guilt as a motive to act criminally.
