ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -For Lacan, the unconscious is language, the Other, so unconscious thought can only be conceived with the same linguistic structure as conscious thought. Unconscious thought is present in conscious thought as an absence.

Detailed explanation-2: -central pillar of Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory is that “the unconscious is structured like a language”, which he substantiates in the essay The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious. Lacan draws on Saussure and emphasizes that meaning is a network of differences.

Detailed explanation-3: -He did so under the banner of a “return to Freud” according to which, as his most famous dictum has it, “the unconscious is structured like a language” (l’inconscient est structuré comme un langage).

Detailed explanation-4: -The unconscious is a part of human psyche, which is related to the needs of the body. Freud had developed an idea that the human mind has three different components: id, ego, and superego. The id represents the predominantly unconscious part of the human mind.