Lorenzo Chiesa (Newcastle University)


“The Unconscious Is a Concept”: Ontogenesis, Structure, and Form


For Lacan, “the unconscious is a concept”. It is not a thing. Yet, it is something precisely as a concept. What is the concept of the unconscious ontogenetically? Where is in here henceforth the structural position of the unconscious? Why should we, in addition to such a descriptive level, also and especially consider the unconscious as a concept that formally is? And how is the concept of the letter, as itself both descriptive of ontogenesis and structure as well as ontologically formal, crucial in all this?