TY - BOOK AU - Lippi,Silvia TI - Structure in Practice: The Differential Diagnostic According to the Teaching of Jacques Lacan PY - 2014///. N1 - 11 N2 - We will analyze the evolution of the concept of structure in psychoanalysis and its various approaches by showing its importance and its specificity in clinical psychoanalysis. Structure allows for a particular diagnostic approach, “structure” not to be confused with the notions of “system,” “category,” and “nosography.” A structural diagnosis does not differ from the normal work of the course of treatment. In this sense, the concept of structure and signifier are inseparable, as linguistics and structural anthropology show. This is the starting point of the theory of structure in Lacan. Lacan detaches from structuralism, considering the structure as a closed ensemble that includes its limit and which, from its limit, opens, and where the subject is an integral part of the system UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-cliniques-mediterraneennes-2014-2-page-201?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -