Abstract
This chapter provides a commentary on Jacques Lacan’s short paper ‘On a Purpose’, written for the publication of his Écrits in 1966. The commentary highlights two major themes of this paper. First, the critical reappraisal Lacan gives to Freud’s work in the context of Lacan’s ‘Return to Freud’ during the 1950s and 1960s. Second, Lacan’s appeal to topology as a way to re-conceptualize the central problematics of psychoanalysis that Freud himself battled with: the internal and external worlds, repetition compulsion, and the insistence of the signifier on psychical reality.
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