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The issue of corporeality is recurrent in Lacan’s thought and is also constantly taken up by his school. However, it can be argued that the way this issue is addressed in the various stages of Lacan’s thought ultimately neutralizes the effectiveness of the reference to the body in his psychoanalytic theory and, presumably, in the clinical practice based on this theory. This paper sets out to find evidence for this attitude throughout Lacan’s work and discuss its theoretical consequences. In spite of the many conceptual changes that distinguish this work, this same attitude seems to prevail throughout its development, even though in different contexts and with regard to different theoretical devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]