The Subject in Lacan (2 of 4): Not ego, not psychological

We extend out discussion of the subject as ’non match-up’, as the irreconcilability between statement and enunciation present in each prospective instance of speech. In this sense the subject does not pre-exist its own disruption or contradiction but is exactly ’ontological undecidability’ itself. We introduce facets of Lacan’s critique of psychological notions of subjectivity emphasizing particularly Lacan’s insistence that the subject is not the ego or even vaguely egoic. Interestingly also, we suggest that the concept of the subject needs to remain empty and that it points more to how one one should work clinically than to any substantial qualities of the individual. The status of the subject, like the status of the unconscious, is ethical rather than ontological.