Introduction P sychoanalysis is both the theory and practice founded on the Freudian approach to the unconscious.
Psychoanalysis exists through clinical practice.
This implies that all efforts to apply psychoanalytic concepts to other subjects are outside the realm of psychoanalysis, since psychoanalysis not a utilitarian discourse of mastery but a theory deriving its necessity from the singularity of each particular case. Symptom and Structure F or Lacan, psychoanalytic treatment is a process with a definite direction, a structural progression with a beginning, middle and end. These interviews enable a symptom to be constituted in the place of the vague complaints often brought by the patient. Following Freud, Lacan at first conceived neurotic symptoms as formations of the unconscious, representing a compromise between conflicting desires. D iagnosis is determined during the preliminary interviews.