ABSTRACT
The thesis of this chapter is that this particular paper presents us with the start of the Lacanian Lacan, beyond his return to Freud. The historical circumstances of the paper, from the colloque de Bonneval to the discourse de Rome, from the SPP to the first Lacanian school, are explained in the introduction. The second part of the paper presents a close reading of Lacan’s text. In the third section, the new ideas of Position of the Unconscious are explained within the larger framework of Seminar XI. The above-mentioned thesis is argued based upon a close reading of the paper in combination with Seminar XI. Lacan introduces his concept of the divided subject in relation to the Unconscious as a border process, based upon an original loss and the ensuing structural lack and causing the advent of the subject via the alienation and the separation.
