Contributions of the theory of discourses and the social tie by Jacques Lacan to the current university context

Abstract

Psychoanalysis is a practice that comprises essentially what Lacan called the analytic device, defined as the clinical listening device of the psychoanalyst on the word of the individual psychoanalyzed. However, psychoanalysis is not reduced to an analytical device, since it is such a powerful critical theory that encompasses various phenomena of social ties. A clear example of this can be found in the various works of both Freud and Lacan that aimed at clarifying social ties. In  this sense, the theoretical developments made by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan are paramount to the point of giving rise to a type of psychoanalysis of Lacanian orientation. 

Because of this, it is possible to think of psychoanalysis in the current educational context, on which Lacanian psychoanalysis has largely reflected from the formalization of the theory of the four discourses, proposed by Jacques Lacan, from which important consequences have been derived, and which will be dealt with throughout the article.