=====Background=====In 1953<ref>At the Rome Congress of Romance Language Psychoanalysts, on the 26th of September, 1953.</ref> , [[Lacan]] delivered a paper entitled "[[Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse]]" ("[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis]]") -- today referred to as "[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis|Discours de Rome]]" ("[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis|Rome Discourse]]").<ref>"[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis|Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse]]." ''[[Écrits]]''. Paris: Seuil, 1966: 237-322 ["[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis]]." Trans. [[Alan Sheridan]]. ''[[Écrits: A Selection]]''. London: Tavistock, 1977; New York: W.W. Nortion & Co., 1977: 30-113].
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The paper, the founding statement of Lacanian theory, defines psychoanalysis as a practice of speech and a theory of the speaking subject.
=====Summary=====
This paper sets out [[Lacan]]'s major concerns for the following decade:
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