Employing Lacan's conception of desire, this paper explores the distinction between self and subjectivity as it emerges in the psychoanalytic situation. Challenging the notion of the self as a singular, coherent, and bounded entity, I demonstrate, through a review of Dora's case, that the "Freidian subject" is a cast of characters, a loose net of contextual, contradictory, and shifting identifications enveloping not a discrete core, but its very absence.