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The unconscious perceived as an external place where the 'treasure trove of signifiers' and the subject's true speech lies.

A paradoxical concept signifying extreme pleasure that ultimately becomes pain, linked to the Real.

The child's psychosexual conflicts with the mother and father, leading to identification with the same-sex parent.

The perpetual movement driven by lack, oriented towards something that is always perceived as missing.

A realm of images and illusions; linked to the mirror stage where the ego is developed; characterized by dual relationships.

The central concept to Lacan's theory, stating that desire originates from a fundamental sense of loss.

A symbolic signifier of power and the presence of the absence in the realm of the Symbolic; not equivalent to the male genital organ.

An encounter that typically involves a psychoanalyst, a patient, and the patient's free association guided by the principles of Lacanian theory.

A realm beyond symbolic order that is impossible for us to fully articulate or understand; a sense of the ineffable and pre-linguistic.

The symbolic order and the structures of social authority and language that regulate the subject's interactions.

The realm of language, law, social structure, and the Oedipal complex; established through the prohibition of incest.

The object of desire that is never attainable but motivates much of a person's actions and fantasies.

Unlike the ordinary act of looking, the Lacanian gaze is the anxious sense that one is being viewed as an object.

A re-interpretation of Freudian psychoanalysis focusing on the centrality of language and desire in the human psyche.

A developmental stage where a child first recognizes their own image as separate from themselves, leading to ego formation.

In Lacanian theory, a being that is constituted by language and the unconscious, marked by a fundamental division or split.