This article lists some issues considered crucial for correlating Psychoanalysis and Law, especially the field of Human Rights, taking as an axis of correlation the relationship between the concepts of psychological suffering, helplessness, psychoanalysis ethics and the subject of the unconscious. We suggest reflecting on the statute of law and the social bond based on a shift in its concept of subject and pose the following question: Is the subject of law, based on the rational and conscious human person guided by the humanist tradition and the economy of goods still able to respond to impasses in the field of politics and social ties? Founded on Lacan's assertion that the object of psychoanalysis is not man, but what he lacks — not an absolute lack, but the lack of an object —, this paper uses that statement for its critical approach to the discourse of Human Rights to highlight an epistemological pathway beyond philosophical and social criticism and thus to enable the emergence of something new that can be constructed based on psychoanalysis: the impossible of the universality of Human Rights Declarations and the consequent convocation of the subject of desire in extimity to the subject of law, based on the clinical method as a way of addressing the suffering which humanism, classical ethics and the discourse of Human Rights cover.
Key words:
Psychoanalysis; human rights; subject of law; subject of the unconscious