ABSTRACT
For Lacan, the unconscious is structured like a language. Consequently, for Lacan, language involves both a symbolic and an imaginary dimension. Both Lacan and Jung were aware of the importance of analogy. For Lacan, the unconscious is not a language; it is not structured as a language. Desire is clearly a master category for Lacan, and as a concept he distinguishes it from need, or biological instinct, and demand, made in relation to the Other. The capacity to feel the sublime is thus one of the most glorious dispositions in human nature, deserving our respect due to its origin in a self-sufficient capacity to think and will; because of its influence on moral human beings, it deserves as well to be developed in the most complete possible manner. For Lacan, human subjectivity is based on a split or organized around an absence.
