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objet petit a . It is not the material object which desire tends, but it is the cause of desire. The reason of being so is explained by Evans like this, Desire is not a
relation to an object, but a relation to a LACK 1996: 38. This is one of the points that Lacan believed as the incompleteness of self, no one is whole. Human
always lacks of something.
b. Symptom
Symptom is a term which is commonly used in medical field. Since psychoanalysis was first a clinical study, it adopts a similar concept of symptom
from medical perception. The concept of symptom is thus predicated on a basic distinction between
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and the hidden causes of those phenomena which cannot be experienced but must be inferred Evans, 1996: 205.
The distinctive point between symptom in medical field with the one which is in psychoanalysis is the ability of the symptom to lead the analysis to a
valid hidden phenomena occurred in a person. In medical world, certain symptom leads the analyst to arrive to a diagnosis about what a person tends to suffer from.
In psychoanalysis, something is considered as a symptom in one condition: it is repeated for many times. According to many cases that have been analyzed,
symptom is always something which is contrasted to the desire it represents. In literal association, a description of a symptom usually does not have any relation
with the repressed desire. Symptom could not be the only sign to determine the condition of a person. It still needs more complex method of collecting
information from various aspects of the person s life to eventually be able to come to the nearest conclusion.
Another difference between medical symptom and psychoanalytic symptom is the aim of figuring it out. Medic does an effort to relate a symptom to
an illness that the patient has in order to cure the illness. In psychoanalysis, figuring out a symptom does not aim to remove it. It is considered as something
which is not necessary since when a symptom disappears, another one will replace it Evans, 1996: 205. Thus, along the life, human always suffers from symptoms.
According to Freud s theory of repression, symptom is one of the forms by which the repressed can return.
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ego, superego, and id, these three entities work in a process of repression. Peter Barry in Beginning Theory
defined repression as the forgetting or ignoring of unresolved conflicts,
unadmitted desires, or traumatic past events, so that they are forced out of conscious awareness and into the realm of the unconscious Barry, 2009: 92-93.
repression Id is always considered as something which is too vulgar or not appropriate to be expressed directly. Therefore, it must be repressed so that it
would not come out in another inappropriate form. This function is run by superego. As the result of the repression, there comes the ego as the most proper
form of the expression of id. When something in human mind is repressed, it does not totally disappear.
it remains alive in the unconscious, like radioactive matter buried beneath the ocean, and constantly seeks a way back into the conscious mind, always
succeeding eventually Barry, 2009: 96. Freud once stated, There is always a return of the repressed. According to Freud s statement, each person will give the
way back to his repressed fear and wish. Freud explained that those repressed things might come back in the form of symptoms, dreams, or slips of tongue.
Basically, Lacan agreed with Freud s thought about repression. He did not state a radical differentiation from it. However, since Lacan presented a different
theory of subject, there are some things that are needed to be paid attention to. In Lacan s concept of repression, what to repress is the desire of a subject. A similar
