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==Jacques Lacan==The [[concept ]] of [[causality]] forms an important thread that runs throughout [[Lacan]]'s entire [[work]].

==Psychosis==It first appears in the context of the question of the [[cause]] of [[psychosis]], which is a central concern of [[Lacan]]'s doctoral [[thesis ]] <ref>{{L}} ''[[Works of Jacques Lacan|De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité]]''. [[Paris]]: Seuil, 19321975.</ref>.

==Psychical Causality==[[Lacan]] returns to this question in 1946, where the [[cause]] of [[madness]] becomes the very [[essence ]] of all psychical [[causality]]. In the 1946 paper he reiterates his earlier view that a specifically [[psyche|psychical]] [[cause]] is needed to explain [[psychosis]]; however, he also questions the possibility of defining "[[psychical]]" in [[terms]] of a simple opposition to the concept of matter, and this leads him, in 1955, to dispense with the simplistic [[notion]] of "psychogenesis."<ref>{{S3}} p. 7</ref>.

==Symbolic and Real==In the 1946 paper he reiterates his earlier view that a specifically psychical 1950s [[Lacan]] begins to address the very concept of [[causecausality]] itself, arguing that it is needed to explain be situated on the border between the [[psychosissymbolic]] and the [[real]]; however, he also questions the possibility of defining 'psychical' in terms of it implies "a simple opposition to mediation between the concept [[chain]] of matter, [[symbols]] and this leads him, in 1955, to dispense with [[The Real|the simplistic notion of 'psychogenesis' real]]."<ref>{{S3S2}} p.7192</ref>.

In the 1950s [[Lacan]] begins to address ==Science==He argues that the very concept of [[causality]] itself, arguing that it is to be situated on the border between the which underpins all [[symbolicscience]] and the , is itself a non-[[realscientific]]concept; it implies "a mediation between the chain very notion of symbols and cause ... is established on the realbasis of an original wager."<ref>{{S2}} p.192</ref>.

He ==Anxiety==In the [[seminar]] of 1962-3, [[Lacan]] argues that the concept [[true]] [[meaning]] of [[causality]] should be looked for in the phenomenon of [[anxiety]], which underpins all for [[scienceanxiety]], is itself a non-scientific concept; "the very notion of cause ... is established on the basis of an original wager."<ref>{{S2}} p.192</ref>[[doubt]].

In the ==Cause of Desire==He then [[seminarlinks]] this with the concept of 1962-3, ''[[Lacanobjet petit a]] argues that '', which is now defined as the true [[meaningcause]] of [[causality]] should be looked for in the phenomenon of [[anxietydesire]], for rather than that towards which [[anxietydesire]] is the cause of doubttends.

He then links this with the concept ==Aristotle==In 1964, [[Lacan]] uses [[Aristotle]]'s typology of [[objet petit acause]], which is now defined as s to illustrate the [[causedifference]] of between the [[desiresymbolic]], rather than that towards which and the [[desirereal]] tends.

In 1964, ==Truth==[[Lacan]] uses returns to the [[Aristotlesubject]]'s typology of [[causecausality]] in his 1965-6 [[seminar]]s to illustrate the difference , where he distinguishes between the [[symbolicmagic]], [[religion]], [[science]] and [[psychoanalysis]] on the basis to their [[realrelationship]]to [[truth]] as [[cause]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.855-77</ref>

==Freudian Case==[[Lacan]] returns to also plays on the [[subject]] ambiguity of [[causality]] in his 1965-6 [[seminar]]the term, where he distinguishes between since besides [[magicbeing]]"that which provokes an effect, " a [[religioncause]]is also "that for which one fights, that which one [[science]] and [[psychoanalysis]] on the basis to their relationship to [[truth]] as [[causedefends]].<ref>Lacan, 1965a</ref>"

[[Lacan]] also plays on the ambiguity of the term, since besides being "that which provokes an effect," a [[cause]] is also "that for which one fights, that which one defends."  [[Lacan]] clearly sees himself as fighting for "the [[Freudian ]] cause," although this fight can only be won when one realises that the [[cause]] of the [[unconscious]] is always "a lost cause."<ref>{{SllS11}} p.128</ref>.