ABSTRACT
Lacanian Discourse Analysis is a methodology that attends to the emergence of the subject of the unconscious. It is sustained by the claim that the subject emerges as an ontic category at the moment language trespasses upon the human being. A new form of being is born, definable and uniquely situated by the logic of the signifier. Lacan builds a concept of the subject that is unthinkable if it is not within discourse: the subject comes to life in language and circulates in discourse as one of its elements, being held by it in two senses: it is trapped in but also sustained by it.
