Lacan and Phenomenology (1): Lacan as "phenomenologically oriented"?

While by the time of Seminar III, Lacan had declared his opposition to phenomenology (via an attack on "the myth of immediate experience"), it turns out that he is perhaps more indebted to phenomenological philosophical ideas than may have initially been expected. We cite Alain Badiou's account of Lacan's break from phenomenology, while also stressing how certain phenomenological ideas (the notion of the subject and the importance of the speaking subject's account of their own understands and experiences) would prove foundation to Lacan's work. By means of reference to Lacan's paper 'Beyond the Reality Principle' and his doctoral thesis, we consider how, in his early work, Lacan can be said to have been "phenomenologically oriented".