ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis deals, with that which is particular to each person—with the subject as a subject of desire. Hence, despite science's aspiration towards the universality of knowledge, psychoanalysis can be termed "The Science of the Particular". When discussing J. Lacan, the focus is usually on language, the symbolic dimension, the chain of signifiers and the like, since French thought in the last decades—structuralist as well as post-structuralist—has dealt with language and its importance. In psychoanalysis, people express their suffering verbally. In The Ethics of Psychoanalysis Lacan illustrated this by referring to pottery—the oldest form of art in the world. Lacan says that the role of the "mirror stage" is that of "imago"—the formation of the imaginary link between external reality and one's inner world. The Act in psychoanalysis takes place when one detaches oneself from the guarantee of that other with which, so it is believed, lays knowledge—the parent, the state, university.
