ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The author takes up Lacan's debate with Daniel Lagache regarding the nature of structure. The book presents Lacan's theories on love and discourse. It fleshes out the mathemes and the four places over which the subject is stretched in each discourse. It shows the structure of Lacan's object a, Lacan breaks with the history of those who have defined objects variously. It describes the structure of the drives that the author takes up Lacan's departure from Freud's idea that the drives are systematic, albeit perverse. It shows in the topological dimension of Lacanian optics, how the bond of mirror-stage symbiosis is broken by a third term, the phallus as the effect of difference. It shows in the practice of the letter and topological structure, the Lacan's saying that every truth has the structure of fiction.
