Neither inside, nor outside. Considerations on the structure of the subject and of language in Jacques Lacan

Abstract

This paper proposes some considerations on the relations between "subject," "language" and "world" in the perspective of the overcoming of the traditional opposition between "inner" and "outer." I will deal preliminarily with the renewed topicality of the problem of psychologism in the light of the neurosciences, touching on the theme of Being-in in Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), a philosopher who valorized the practical and pragmatic dimension of the phenomenological tradition. After that, I will make use of some topological properties of the Möbius strip and of the psychoanalytic investigation of language to illustrate the structure of subjectivity proposed by Jacques Lacan (1901-1981).