Structure and psychoanalysis

Abstract

This article discusses the concept of structure in psychoanalysis, emphasizing its presence and importance in freudian and lacanian formulations. Points to the use of the term structure in some freudian texts, demonstrating that this notion was already present in his work. The return to Freud made by Lacan is revised from Lacan’s relationship with some structuralists. The text points to the Lacan efforts to bring the psychoanalytic experience to the speech and language, from the structuralist teachings and its subversion. The two breaks that mark the removal of Lacan ‘s structuralist movement are presented: the concept of the subject and the concept of real. It is evident that the notion of structure in Lacan is extracted from structuralism, but at the same time it dissociates because the structure of the structuralists is consistent, complete, whereas the Lacanian structure is antinomian and descompletada, including an impossibility in their field: not everything is explainable. Mark a distinction between structuralism based on completion and the teaching of Lacan who sits in incompletação.