ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the transcendental situation of the subject in the signifying chain. It shows that every analyzable discourse actualizes this discourse of a language, a language that is not the language of the human race, but a language of a particular subject. The body of the subject is thus alienated. It becomes the economic system of language, the real structure of the symbolic, and the human body of the other. The chapter describes how this language forms the outside world of the subject. Unlike some kind of cognitive interior of the consciousness, which is indirectly inferred by content analysis, such a discursive exteriority of the unconscious is directly analyzable by discourse analysis. As for its perceptible but unintelligible material structure, it constitutes the field of Jacques Lacanian psychoanalysis. In Lacan, the unconscious is structured as a language, but not as a tongue or a linguistic variety of language.
