Lakāns uzskata, ka bezapziņai ir daudz aktīvāka loma mūsu ikdienā, nekā mēs to spējam stādīties priekšā. piemēram, kad mēs 'automātiski' kādam ātri, neapstājoties stāstam par kādu sev saistošu tematu, tad mēs patiesībā to darām bezapziņā.

Heidegers par lietu apzināšanos, kas spiežas virsū - 'In anxiety beings as a whole become superfluous. In what sense does this happen? Beings are not annihilated by anxiety, so that nothing is left. How could they be, when anxiety finds itself precisely in utter impotence with regard to beings as a whole? Rather the nothing makes itself known with beings and in beings expressly as a slipping away of the whole.

Nihilation is not some fortuitous incident. Rather, as the repelling gesture toward the retreating whole of beings, it discloses these beings in their full but heretofore concealed strangeness as what is radically other - with respect to the nothing. In the clear night of the nothing of anxiety the original openness of beings as such arises: that they are beings - and not nothing. But this "and not nothing" we add in our talk is not some kind of appended clarification. Rather it makes possible in advance the revelation of beings in general. The essence of the originally nihilating nothing lies in this, that it brings Dasein for the first time before beings as such.'