The subject of the patients presentation, clinical device used so much by the psychiatry all that for the psychoanalysis, is shown like an important starting point for the discussion on the epistemical differences existent between these two areas. Freud has been present at the famous patients presentation played the lead role by Charcot in the Salpêtrière, moment immediately previously to the creation of the psychoanalysis. While psychoanalyst he did not practice the patients presentation, however his reports of case, between them what was known like "The rat man", they work like spokesman of the subject of the unconscious, maintaining it cheers the break produced in the speech of the science. This lively nucleus of the psychoanalysis is what Lacan was looking to repeat to each patients presentation that it was carrying out.
psychoanalysis; subject of the unconscious; patients presentation