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In the so-called 'topographical model', [[Freud]] isolates consciousness as one of the parts of the [[psyche]], along with the [[unconscious]] and the [[preconscious]].
[[Lacan ]] finds Freud's remarks on consciousness far weaker than his formulations on the unconscious; "while he [Freud] can give a coherent, balanced account of the majority of other parts of the psychic apparatus, when it's a question of consciousness, he always encounters mutually contradictory conditions."<ref>S2, l 17</ref>
According to Lacan, Freud's problems with discussing consciousness return again and again to haunt his theory: "The difficulties which this system of consciousness raises reappear at each level of Freud's theorising."<ref>S2, 117</ref>
In particular, Lacan rejects the apparent attempts in Freud's work to link the consciousness-perception system to the [[ego]], unless this link is carefully theorised.
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Sigmund Freud]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
