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Psychoanalysis has turned the hypothesis of subjectivity upside down by introducing the myth of drive on the basis of subjectivity, thereby placing the subject in a position where it sometimes rules the drive and sometimes is ruled by it. It follows, that the drive is the basis of psychoanalytical thought and the psychoanalytical subject is the subject of drive. It is for this reason that Sigmund Freud who meticulously avoids using the word “subject”, used it nine times in his text of 1915 “Drives and their Vicissitudes”. Jacques Lacan in his definition of the subconscious, makes reference to the subject and the desire of the other, in fact, the desire of the great other. Here the other is referred as a symbolic otherness (alterity), a promoter of desire. The actual question is: What does a subjective conscious psyche get from “the other”? It must be subjectivity that the subject gets from the other. In that case one can only talk of a relationship between subjectivities, not between subjects. So the conclusion will be; Rather than being a reference to one particular concept, the subject in psychoanalysis is a reference to a process which includes many concepts.