ABSTRACT
Jacques Lacan marks out the beginnings of his theory of the human being. The subject becomes set in his utterances and social roles, and their totality is gradually built up into an ego, which is no more than an objectification of the subject. The ego is situated on the side of the imaginary, whereas subjectivity is situated on the side of the symbolic. The ego is the site of the subject's imaginary identifications. Splitting, to use the term chosen by Lacan, therefore masks the subject from himself in the utterances he makes on himself and on the world. Lacan put forward the view that accession to language and to the symbolic order was a transcendence of the dual relationship, which is truly imaginary, and, as a corollary, a process of individualization of the subject, the subject's registration of himself.
