Completeness of the Subject
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.209
Presentation on Psychical Causality > On the Subject who Is Finally in Question
Theoretical move: Lacan argues that training analysis, properly understood, is the purest or most restricted form of psychoanalysis—revealing the subject at stake in all analysis—and that this recognition requires grounding psychoanalysis in a scientific theory of the subject constituted by the signifying chain, where the symptom is not a sign of truth but is truth, made of the same material as the signifying order itself.
we can recognize in them the mirage which is not even debated: the completeness of the subject. People even formally take such completeness as a goal which should in theory be reachable