ARAUJO, Fabíola Menezes de. The veil of the unconscious and the issue of anxiety. []. , 35, 28, pp.149-168. ISSN 1413-6295.

Lacan evokes the notion of the veil of the unconscious as running in parallel with the notion of wall of language. The psychoanalyst's thesis of the unconscious - as being structured as language - is presented, in those terms, in conformity to the subsequent logic: as the veil in question occurs as an alternation of signifiers, phantasy would also present itself as an interchange of signifiers enabled to combine both the imaginary function of castration and the absence of this function. Similarly to phantasy, the agalma also comprehends the function of castration. The agalma, however, fosters the symbol production based on the occurrence of anxiety, while in phantasy occurs a mere seclusion of the anxiety, which subsequently tends to return in the mode of symptoms.

: Symbolic ordination; phantasy; agalma; anxiety.

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