The Origin of the Subject in Psychoanalysis

This highly original work uses the Big Bang theory as a conceptual tool to address the question of the origin of the subject in psychoanalysis. The Origin of the Subject in Psychoanalysis elucidates the radical discontinuity between Freud and Lacan in the foundations of their psychoanalytic theories and conceptions of the clinic. Alfredo Eidelsztein argues that just as physics conceives the origin of matter, energy and space-time as an absolute beginning, so the appearance of the symbolic order