ABSTRACT
Dr Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic experience has enabled him to reformulate in new terms the status of the human subject. Lacan establishes a separating line at three levels of the human being: between what lies before the unconscious, between the unconscious as a language and conscious language, between signifier and signified at the level of conscious language itself. Lacan's work, which began years ago, also includes a cleaning up, so to speak, of contemporary philosophy. In order to introduce a new mode of reflection into the common consciousness, Lacan has been obliged to take polemical measures. He has pronounced certain axioms with regard to psychoanalysis. Lacan himself says, the extreme complexity of his discourse, both spoken and written, a complexity which he attributes exclusively to the importance of the subversion of thought being realized and to the inevitable resistances due to the very nature of the domain in question, namely the unconscious and the analytic discourse.
