The evanescent experience of the gap

Abstract

My aim with this article is to explore texts written by Georges Bataille on the basis of concepts formulated by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. I will use the concepts subject of the unconscious and drive to focus on the texts that make up La Somme athéologique. In these texts, although not expressly stating it, Bataille presents an experience of the unconscious as manifested in the drive. This experience is not mystical, but indicative of a particular type of social bond.