This thesis carries out a review and analysis of the texts of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan's

theoretical contributions, in order to show that discomfort is structural and inherent to the
subject, and it is expressed by the possibilities provided by the culture in every epoch. By taking
into account the psychoanalytic theory about the constitution of the subjectivity, it is
possible to analyse the structural components of the discomfort that derives from that
constitution.

There are different ways through which the subject shows and tries to work out his discomfort,
including the formations of the unconscious. The paternal metaphor provides the symbolic
resources for that purpose, but the subject has to deal with the main obstacle to this aim: the
superego. Subjectivity and discomfort are closely related to culture and epoch.

Harry Haller, the main character of the book "Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse, provides
elements that show the relationship between the subject

and his discomfort, and the possibilities he has so as to work out such discomfort.

Este trabajo se enmarca en el Proyecto de investigación 2014-2016 “La

autoridad, su relación con el sujeto y la legitimidad,” que se desarrolla desde el
Consejo de Investigaciones de la Universidad del Aconcagua, Mendoza.
El objetivo del presente trabajo es indagar sobre aquello que sustenta a la
función de autoridad y plantear la diferencia con el sometimiento. Para ello, se
examina desde distintas disciplinas el significado del término autoridad y,
particularmente desde el psicoanálisis, se analiza su incidencia en la constitución
subjetiva. Asimismo, se profundiza en el estudio del sometimiento subjetivo y de
las masas en relación a la autoridad y al autoritarismo. Se intenta dar cuenta de
las paradojas del sometimiento: por una parte, sometimiento estructural del sujeto
al lenguaje; por otra parte, sometimiento que busca completar al Otro, dejando al
sujeto sin posibilidades.
El psicoanálisis encuentra, en la constitución del sujeto y en el papel que la ley
desempeña en ella, paradojas que son inmanentes a la estructura. Es una ilusión
concebir una relación con la autoridad en la que la ley funcione perfectamente, el
sujeto podrá posicionarse ante ella de una forma responsable por la vía del deseo
o someterse al goce del autoritarismo.

This work is part of a research project (2014 – 2016), called "Authority, its
relationship with the subject and legitimacy," which develops within the Research
Council of the University of Aconcagua, Mendoza.
The aim of this study is to investigate the role of authority, and its difference
with the concept of submission. For this purpose, the meaning of authority is
examined from different disciplines, but its impact on the constitution of subjectivity
is analyzed particularly from psychoanalytic theory. The study involves individual
and also mass subjugation related to authority and authoritarianism. It attempts to
explain the paradoxes of submission: in one hand, structural subjugation of the
subject to the language; on the other hand, submissing in order to complete the
Other, what leaves the subject without possibilities.

In the constitution of the subjectivity and the role that law plays in it,
Psychoanalysis finds paradoxes that are inherent to that structure. It is an illusion
to imagine perfection in the function of authority. Accordingly, the subject may
place himself in a responsible condition with law (the paths of the desire), or
undergo himself to the authoritarianism (the paths of the jouissance).

The psychoanalytictheory/ psychoanalysis finds, in the constitution of the subject and the role
that the law plays in it, paradoxes that are inherent to the that structure. While it is an illusion to
conceive a relationship with the authority in which the law works perfectly, the subject may positions
before/ places himself it in a responsible manner by way of desire or jouissance undergo
authoritarianism.

about the constitution of the subjectivity