ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that how the symbolic subject, that with which the real subject is symbolically identified, intervenes as a signifier for another signifier. It discusses between this subject of the signifier and the subject of knowledge, the psychological subject that is repudiated by Jacques Lacan and acceptes in social psychology. The chapter reviews relevant contributions by E. Kant, E. Benveniste, M. Bakhtin and J. Derrida in order to specify the transcendental situation of such a subject, before the elaboration of any kind of particular social or historical knowledge. In both the spatial environment of language and the temporal dimension of the signifying chain. Whether in dialogic or monologic situations, thought is governed by language, composed by signifiers, developed by discourse. The Lacanian signifier constitutes the external materiality of language. In speech as well as in language, the signifier precedes the ontogenesis of the subject.
