This paper constitutes an exploration of the construction of academic identity through a retrospective autoethnographic narrative analysis. In essentially experimental mode I set out to examine processes of identification evident in this account, and in particular, the understanding of desire that resonates within it for, it can be argued, without desire there is no identity. I began my analysi...

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was not only a French psychoanalyst, but also Western psychoanalytic thinker and prominent name in the history of psychoanalysis by teaching lectures holding weekly seminars, he made significant changes psychoanalysis, taking Freud’s to another stage giving philosophical dimension thought, which is why we call him Freud France. In addition philosophy linguistics are tw...