It must not be supposed that the Freudian approach is the combination of an interpretation of meaning and a dynamics of resistance or defence; by following the same path as the human sciences, but with its gaze turned the other way, psychoanalysis moves towards the moment by definition inaccessible to any theoretical knowledge of man, to any continuous apprehension in terms of signification, conﬂict, or function at which the contents of consciousness articulate themselves, or rather stand gaping, upon man's finitude.