While Lacan resisted any normative developmental timeline of the subject, he did speak of a logics of subjectivity in relation to the registers of Real, Symbolic and Imaginary. These logics have to do with the subject’s relations with the other, determining how the subject will constitute their desire, jouissance and fundamental fantasy. Differentiating these logics is essential for directing the treatment towards the subject owning their desire.

 

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Lacan, Jacques (1959–1960). The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, translated by Dennis Porter. London: WW Norton (1997), pp. 115-127.

 

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