Jacques Lacan's construction of the category of the "real" brought with it more difficulties and doubts than did his categories of the "symbolic" and the "imaginary." This article discusses these difficulties together with certain steps he took concerning their introduction and later resolution. The aim of the investigation is to better situate the role of this category of the "real" within Lacan's "metapsychology" - especially since we acknowledge that this metapsychology necessarily interacts with neighboring metapsychologies, as it also interacts with various aspects of the philosophical "act of saying."
Impossible; object petit a; subject; truth