From impossibility to inability: Lacan's theory on the four discourses

During the late sixties and the early seventies, the intellectual talk of the town was about structuralism and the structuralists, with Foucault, Lacan and Barthes being the most prominent figures. The fact that each of these three denied being a structuralist was considered irrelevant, and added a bit of parisian spice and frivolity to the discussion. As far as Lacan is concerned, I find it rather difficult to answer the question of whether he was a structuralist or not.…