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The research being conducted has practical, theoretical and scientific value in the research field. Lacanian discourse analysis helps identify the treatment in psychoanalysis, can be applied to studying mental and social characteristics of a language spoken by various minorities.
An interviewer and an interviewee took part in a research; the conversation was written down and attached to the paper on the consent of the interviewee. The theory of Lacanian Discursive Analysis has been applied to the paper in order to identify the symbolic and the imaginary unconscious reflected in the language spoken.
In the first section of the paper I introduce Lacanian phenomenon the unconscious through the imaginary and the symbolic in the language. The second part deals with methodology, being eligible to apply for the analysis of a discourse concerning the issue of racism. The core foundation ideas of the theory as well as the structuralized organizational scheme of the discourse have been identified. Spontaneous character and the wavy behavior of repetition in a discourse make discursive analysis easier. The Lacanian sense of lack is applicable for racism related discourses. The third part of the paper deals with analyzing different discursive situations in terms of such notions of the language, as grammatical and lexical structures, other extra-linguistic means.
As a result of the research we get three discursive situations, some of which contain several episodes, analyzed under the Lacanian Discourse. We have identified the four fundamental elements of each situation and disclosed unconscious premises hidden. However, the attempts to make the research detailed without making any suppositions at all is impossible due to the impossibility to penetrate a person’s mind.
