Lacan has been considered as one of the most important psychoanalysts after Freud. Slavoj Zizek usually refers to his writings. In the "Colors of the Sunrise", I apply the Lacanian theory to show how structuralist psychoanalysis helps us to see the psychopathology as it emerges in the linguistic and cognitive structures.
Additionally referring to the neuroses and psychoses I give a thorough analysis of how Freud focused on libido, Jung on archetypes and medicine, and Lacan on a Lacanian terminology that includes the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real.
Discoveries like the "Other's Desire", the "Mirror stage", and the symbolic manifestation of symptoms in the body, bring again the concept of an embodied mind from cognitive science as thoroughly described by Varela, Thompson & Rosch (1991), and the need to unite the structures of mind through a deconstruction of the perceived stimuli.
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