This article aims to sustain a position about the diagnosis in reference to the ethics of psychoanalysis proposed by Lacan, which is driven by real post in praxis and not by scientific ideal. Based on the concepts established in psychoanalysis, situated the diagnosis as an act of mastery in medical discourse, formulating that the reverse of this discourse is the possibility to devise the diagnosis in psychoanalysis as semi-say the deadlock experienced in the clinic.
diagnosis; ethics; clinical psychoanalysis
