unconscious was alogical; the ego was said to be locial, rational, and tolderant of tension.
The work of Lacan (1957, 1960) characterizes the unconscious in the same way and even calls for a return to early Freudian notions of the unconscious. However, Lacan adds a novel element in his discussions of the unconscious (defined as a dynamic and personal system of thought) through his characterization of its structure as language-like.
Lacan, like Freud, states that entrance into the unconscious mind is made through special phenomena such as jokes, dreams, slips of the tongue, and neurotic symptoms. Understanding the mind roiling within this language-like structure is said
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