| Abstract: | This article treats Jacques Lacan's reading of the Freudian unconscious, and inspects his transposition of the structuralist linguistics of De Saussure and Jakobson. A specific dream is analysed, and in the course of the analysis, various aspects of Freud's concepts are considered (thing presentation/word presentation; primal repression/repression proper etc.) The problem of the narcissistic construction of the ego is only treated in passing, although it is implicit in the general argument and in the question of any chain whatsoever that might operate as ‘linguistic’ in the unconscious. The Lévi-Straussian derivation of the concept of ‘The Symbolic Order’ is stated, and its universal applicability questioned. |
