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This article demonstrates the importance of the body in Lacanian theory and psychoanalytic practice. The article aims to prove that Lacan's theory of psychoanalysis is not only based on language but also on a new theory of the body, specific to psychoanalysis.The method chosen by the author consists in studying the different moments in Lacanian theory, and in showing the main paradigms of the body...