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The pretensions of the spirit would remain unassailable if the letter had not shown us that it produces all the effects of the truth in man without involving the spirit at all. It is none other than Freud who had this revelation, and he called his discovery the unconscious. (Lacan)

Lacan tries less to sublate philosophy by offering it the truth of a supplementary and final object -the "unconscious" -than he attempts to bring something to light that "works" and disrupts philosophy from its very closure.