This chapter aims to outline the key elements of a Lacanian-HegelianLacanian-Hegelian perspective on conflict and violence. It does so through engaging with the theory of structural violencestructural violence, in particular that developed by Johan Galtung and elaborated by Richard E Rubenstein in his book Resolving Structural Conflicts. The chapter first provides an overview of a Lacanian-Hegelian perspective on conflict, emphasising how its key feature is a distinction between conflict consisting of visible acts of violence between adversaries on the one hand and a conflict (antagonismantagonism) at the heart of the social order itself. Such a description evokes theories of structural violence and conflict in peace and conflict studiespeace and conflict studies which I examine in order to understand how structures and systems produce violent conflict. What is missing from typical accounts of structural violence is what, following Alenka Zupancic, I term ‘the essence of conflictessence of conflict’, which is the RealReal of peace thinkingpeace thinking, or a formal violence reflecting the Hegelian powerpower of negativitynegativity that threatens to tear apart any harmonious society. The chapter concludes with a consideration of the Lacanian notion of enjoymentenjoyment as a factor in peace and conflict.