Abstract

SILVA, Manuel Moreira da. Significante versus inconsciente, contra-dicções: Ou, antes do signo, a o-posição; no início, a imagem. Nat. hum. [online]. 2020, vol.22, n.1, pp. 186-200. ISSN 1517-2430.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17648/2175-2834-v22n1-303.

This paper discusses the Lacanian proposition according to which "the unconscious is structured as a language" and its foundation from the Levi-Strauss Anthropology. In view of this, it discusses the status of the signifier (in the theoretical framework of the linguistic sign) as a concrete being and as an empty or indeterminate representation, devoid of content or meaning and that of the founding image of the same, which is imposed as its essential presupposition. Finally, consider the limits and contradictions of the signifier for thematization and understanding of the unconscious.

Keywords : Lacan; Freud; Lévi-Strauss; Language; Unbegriff.

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