ABSTRACT
This chapter picks up and develops several key discontinuities in the psychology/psychoanalysis 'non-relation' that pivot on Lacan's understanding of the subject. Leonardo Rodriquez pinpoints what during the 1950s Lacan took to be the over-arching agenda of a psychoanalytic treatment: for Lacan the aim of analysis was the realisation of the subject, which is only possible in speech, in the utterance of the truthful word. The objectifying tendency that Lacan associated with psychology, had, by the early 1950s, begun to spread to psychoanalysis. Adapting concepts from the history of philosophy and scholastic psychology will not, for Lacan, suffice. A discrete area of scientific endeavour, after all, needs to develop the concepts and instruments that have been developed within its own domain and which are best suited to what it undertakes to study. For Lacan, psychology's 'objectivistic' ethos necessarily fails the subject. The influence of phenomenology is apparent in early Lacan not only in terms of anti-objectivism and the prioritization of inter-subjectivity.
