ABSTRACT
Language alone allows the order of the world to be instituted, and then allows acts of reflexion and of consciousness upon the world and upon sense impressions to be carried out. Language re-produces reality. Jacques Lacan makes great use of this philosophy of language, which can be seen in his whole theory, especially in those texts dealing with the supremacy of the order of the signifier over man who makes his entry into it and finds himself subjected to it. The philosophy which may be derived from the study of language will lead Lacan to promote the thesis that birth into language and the utilization of the symbol produce a disjunction between the lived experience and the signs which replaces it. Language does have the virtue of providing the subject with a purchase, a possible point of reference for Lacan's own identity. Language is thus the precondition for the act of becoming aware of oneself as a distinct entity.
