Abstract

REIS, Vitor Augusto Werner dos  and  WERNER, Patrícia Simões de Almeida Justo da Silva. Structuralism in Jacques Lacan's work: returning to the question of language. J. psicanal. [online]. 2020, vol.53, n.98, pp. 331-346. ISSN 0103-5835.

This article analyzes the contributions of the structuralist movement to the advance of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The study presents a brief history of the structuralism and its main affiliations. Both Lévi-Strauss's anthropology and Jakobson's linguistics enabled Lacan to carry out his Freudian project characterized by a new way of producing science. However, the study highlights that Lacan's relationship with Saussurian linguistics had a unique impact on the direction of psychoanalysis. Lacan found in structural linguistics a possibility of bringing psychoanalysis back to its specific field - language. Thus, structuralism occupies an important place in the history of psychoanalysis, a fact that we try to demonstrate in this work.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; structuralism; linguistics; lacan; language.

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