The Problem of Subject and Subjectivation in the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan

The aim of the study is to systematize the psychoanalytical approach to the problem of the individual as a subject (based on the ideas of Jacques Lacan) and to use this approach for the analysis of contemporary Russian social conservatism. To achieve the above goal, the study consistently addresses the following objectives: reveals the specificity of human subjectivity and designates the dimension (objective subjectivity) to which psychoanalysis has made the greatest contribution; bridges the gap between individual subjectivity, intersubjectivity, and collective subjectivity; explores Jacques Lacan's ideas on subjectivation; analyses Lacan's understanding of perversion as a special clinical structure resulting from the failure of the subjectification process; uses the concepts connected to perversion (disavowal, fetish, splitting) for analysys of the pattern of perversion and establishes its structural similarity to the pattern of social conservatism.