ABSTRACT
The eroticized partial instinct refers back to the organic need which founds it, but it also refers back beyond this to a lived experience of radical lack resulting from separation from the maternal body. It alone can set the psychical apparatus in motion. It transpires from the distinctions made by Freud that desire comes into force as the tension of the psychical apparatus only in so far as a representative of the instinct appears. It then moves the psychical apparatus in function of that representative. The real object of lack, of need and of the instinct is lost for ever, cast into the unconscious. The subject is divided into two parts: his unconscious truth and the conscious language which partially reflects that truth. The elementary signifiers of the unconscious in fact contract multiple with one another and with those signifiers which join them as a result of successive repressions.
