摘要:This work intends to discuss the relation of affectation between Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Discourse Analysis – known in Brazil as French AD – specially the concept of the subject as elaborated in Psychoanalysis. It focuses mainly on researches interested in teaching-learning languages from a discursive perspective. First, the article approaches the understanding of the concept by the studies of discourse, analyzes the theoretical and methodological consequences of the relation between psychoanalysis and AD, and problematizes the limits of the psychoanalytical concept of the subject employed by the studies of discourse concerning the concept of the subject. The article points out the need for procedures of corpora constitution and analysis that value the subjectivity in its constitutive relation with language.