ABSTRACT
Death could be presented as unexpected contingency, Tuche, and death as named, said through a signifier. The real could be an unexpected contingency, the traumatic for S. Freud, the Tuche that might irrupt with its absurd sound, at any moment, in the Automaton of the analysis as continuity. For psychoanalysis, given that a signifier is necessarily implied in order to say it, death is represented, said, from the perspective of life. Jacques Lacan, without needing recourse to the Freudian concept of energy, in the same way as desire and the subject, defines death as an effect of the signifier. In this, as with castration, it is always symbolic. Death that, as lack, as the condition and place for the subject, begins in the castration of the Other whose primordial representative is the mother.
