This study concerns the understandings about the subject and his constitution in the works of Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan. In spite of several approach differences, the legacies of Foucault and Lacan are similar in the fact that the subject is envisioned as empty, negative and without any essence or nature. This argument is developed through some classical foucaultian afirmations about psychoanalysis. The axis of the article is the Oedipus complex question and the possibility of its surpassing in psychoanalysis when seen as a method for the deconstruction of senses, especially from the advent of Lacan's "second clinic".
Foucault; Lacan; subject; senses; Oedipus