The subject on which psychoanalysis operates is the subject of science. The unconscious is not what escapes from science, but is rather one of the effects of this exclusion. Hysterical symptoms were among the effects of the return of forclusion of the name of the father by the discourse of science, or its reduction to the function of head of the family or the function of educational and social authority. Today we are faced with new symptoms that would seem to have their origin in the progressive decline of the father function. Following Freud, Lacan developed a new theory of castration, beyond the father, based on the role of the object divided between mother/woman in transmitting the castration complex.
Anxiety; symptom; father function; object a; castration