Explain lacan's theory of language . also explain how according to lacan - unconscious is structured like a language

Unconscious thought is present in conscious thought as an absence. The mechanisms of the transition from the unconscious thought to the dream image in Freudian dream work, condensa...

For Lacan, Freud's most significant discovery is the existence of the unconscious and the central task of psychoanalysis—the relation of the unconscious to language and symbolic be...

Language, for Lacan, designates not simply verbal speech or written text but any signifying system that is based upon differential relations. The unconscious is structured like a l...