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The term "[[death]]" occurs in various contexts in [[Lacan]]'s work.
==Symbolic Death==
==="Absolute Master"===
From [[Hegel]] (via [[Kojève]]), [[Lacan]] takes the idea that [[death]] is both constitutive of [[man]]'s [[freedom]] and "[[Master|the absolute Master]]."<ref>[[Alexandre Kojève|Kojève, Alexandre]] (1947 [1933-39]) ''[[Kojève|Introduction to the Reading of Hegel]]'', trans. James H. Nichols Jr., New York and London: Basic Books, 1969. p.21). </ref>
[[Death]] plays a crucial part in the [[Hegelian]] [[dialectic]] of the [[master]] and the [[slave]] where it is intimately linked with [[desire]], since the [[master]] only affirms himself for others by means of a [[desire]] for [[death]].<ref>{{E}} p.105</ref>
