ABSTRACT
D. W. Winnicott, J. Lacan, and W. R. Bion have attempted sophisticated and intensive depth phenomenologies of faith in travail. For them, the vicissitudes of faith mark the central point around which psychic turmoil and conflict gather. In Lacan the area of faith is associated, at least in its developed form, mainly with the Symbolic order and his notion of the "gap." The chapter discusses how Lacan and Winnicott heighten and extend each other's overlapping positions. In order to approach the ways Lacan and Winnicott differ, and from the perspective of their differences explore how they enrich each other, we must say something of Lacan's three orders of unconscious mind and their relation to the phenomenon of the "gap." Lacan depicts three orders of unconscious mental events: the Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic. Although Winnicott, Lacan, and Bion develop the theme of faith through-doubleness in their own individual ways, there is a point at which they converge.
