ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a sketch the first steps towards a better psychoanalytic theorization of subjectivation. It is only in his 1966 publication that Lacan will use the term signifier to designate scansions. It is important to see how such subjective development must at every step be carried out in two concurrent registers. On the one hand, there is the synchronic relation between "reciprocal subjects", the basic relation with the other-subject, the prototype of which is, of course, the mother-child interaction. But on the other hand, we have the diachronic revisiting of the personal history, a temporal path made up of discontinuous "leaps". The conjunction of two dimensions, synchronic and diachronic, helps us to grasp that subjectivation involves the transformation of a spatial element within the dimension of time. The Lacanian notion of scansion is, as we have said, inseparable from the idea of a subjectivating act.
