Psychoanalysis and the structuralist model

Abstract

Lacan is part of the paradigm of structuralist thought of his time, regarding this time as a backdrop: his first seminar was led in 1953 and lasted for more than 10 years. This does not imply that he makes a structuralist reading of psychoanalysis; on the contrary, Lacan makes a psychoanalytical reading using references from structuralism. Structuralism as a new model of science is deployed from the hermeneutics of suspicion and is played on the ground of linguistics, elevating it to the rank of a pilot science. From the language-structure equivalence, places, relationships, and functions are established. They allow a reading of Freud from key formalization to think about its transmission.