Subject of Science
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#01
Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.689
The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious
Theoretical move: Lacan argues that Freudian psychoanalysis constitutes a "Copernican" subversion of the subject by grounding the unconscious not in consciousness, affect, or ineffable states but in a chain of signifiers — thereby distinguishing psychoanalytic truth from both Hegelian absolute knowing and the empiricism of academic psychology, and repositioning truth as that which knowledge cannot fully absorb.
In and of itself, this warrants our speaking of a subject of science—a notion to which an epistemology that can be said to display more pretension than success would like to measure up.
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#02
Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.747
On Freud's "Trieb" and the Psychoanalyst's Desire > Science and Truth
Theoretical move: Lacan argues that the subject of psychoanalysis is identical to the subject of modern science (inaugurated by the Cartesian cogito), and that this identity — structured as a division between knowledge and truth, formally rendered by the Möbius strip — is what grounds psychoanalysis as a practice while simultaneously ruling out any "humanist" or anthropological supplementation of that subject.
There is no such thing as a science of man because science's man does not exist, only its subject does.