This study describes the way lack is conceived by Lacan at two different levels: with the retrieval of the Freudian Thing and the introduction of Object a. Such effort to conceptualize lack is associated to Lacan's attempt of rescuing that which has revealed itself as central in Freud's experience. Two distinct ways of thinking the relationship between concept and lack in psychoanalysis are related to the Thing and Object a. Such forms of thinking are determining in the type of proximity one may have of what is at stake in the analytical experience.
Lacan; concept; lack; Thing; object a