This article covers the issue of the moi and the body in Lacan, based on his re-reading of Freudian texts. It indicates how the author, questioning the constitution of the moi, goes back to Freudian fundamental concepts such as ego, identification and narcissism. In this way, through the elaboration of the Imaginary level and the proposed conceptual scheme of the mirror stage, it assures the importance of the image of the body in the formation of the moi, making also the unknown and the alienation as constituents of the moi. It indicates how the notions of the moi and the body suffer correlative transformations by the rectifications in Lacan's theory, as do the Symbolic and Real. In this way, within the psychoanalytic field established by the author, the body can be considered and studied through his conception of three central categories. From the point of view of the Imaginary: the body as an image; from the Symbolic point of view: the body affected by the significant; and from the point of view of the Real level: the body as a synonym of enjoyment (jouissance). Discusses the Freudian conception of the body, pointing that it is not limited to the Biological field. Presents how the Lacanian theory allows the redefinition of this problem through the speech.
Lacanian psychoanalysis; The body; Psychoanalytic clinic; Subjectivity; Lacan