
As presented by Freud, the structure of the Id entails an essential paradox. In this work we will give an account of that paradox based on the concept of Entstellung, mainly following what was proposed by Lacan in his work Remarks on Daniel Lagache's Presentation. First, we will develop each of the Freudian considerations about the structure of the Id presented there. Then, that it is precisely the difficulties that these considerations imply, due to how little they prove to agree with each other when they are taken together, that leads Lacan to justify the need for the function of the signifier for every possible approach to structure of the Id as presented by Freud. Finally, why the different translations allowed by the term Entstellung clarify the articulation of the defense with the drive and allows to specify the relationships of the subject of the unconscious with the structure of the signifier