ABSTRACT
This section focuses on the psychoanalytical experience, the category of the real, and the relation between signifier and jouissance. It delves into the effects of what psychoanalysis calls ‘lack’ by emphasizing that clinical experience shows the necessity to take a different account of how language and speech work in relation to the unconscious. This section brings forth key Freudian and Lacanian insights to define and develop the terms ‘symbolic’ and ‘imaginary’. This section also develops the concept of psychoanalytical invariance and defines the unconscious as a topological structure. It provides the basis for approaching the subject of sexual difference through questions of space and spatiality.
