DISSOLVING THE MYTH OF THE UNIFIED SELF - THE FATE OF THE SUBJECT IN FREUDIAN ANALYSIS

Employing Lacan's conception of desire, this paper explores the distin ction between self and subjectivity as it emerges in the psychoanalyti c situation. Challenging the notion of the self as a singular, coheren t, and bounded entity, I demonstrate, through a review of Dora's case, that the ''Freudian subject'' is a cast of characters, a loose net of contextual, contradictory, and shifting identifications enveloping no t a discrete core, but its very absence.