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enunciation (Ènonciation) "''Énoncé''", which is translated as "[[statement]]", refers to the actual [[words]] uttered, "''énonciation''" to the act of uttering [[them]].  =====Enunciation and Statement=====In [[linguistics|linguistic theory ]] in [[Europe]], one important distinction is that between the [[enunciation ]] and the [[statement (Fr. ÈnoncÈ)]]. The distinction concerns two ways [[statement]] refers to the actual words uttered; the [[enunciation]] refers to the act of regarding linguistic productionuttering them. When linguistic production  =====Statement=====A [[statement]] is [[speech]] analysed in [[terms ]] of its abstract [[grammatical ]] units (such as sentences), independent of the specific circumstances of occurrence, it is referred to as a statement. On the other hand, when linguistic production  =====Enunciation=====An [[enunciation]] is analysed [[speech]] [[analyzed]] as an [[individual ]] act performed by a [[particular ]] [[speaker ]] at a specific [[time]] /[[place]], and in a specific [[situation, it is referred to as an enunciation (Ducrot and Todorov, 1972: 405-10)]]. =====Jacques Lacan==========Early Work=====Long before [[Lacan ]] uses these terms, he is already aleady making a similar distinction.  In 1936, for example, he stresses that the act of [[speech|speaking ]] contains a [[meaning ]] in itself, even if the words spoken are '"[[signification|meaningless' (]]."<ref>{{Ec, }} p.83). </ref> Prior to any function it may have in '"conveying a [[message']], " [[speech ]] is an appeal to the [[other]].  This attention to the act of [[speech|speaking ]] in itself, irrespective of the [[content ]] of the utterance, anticipates [[Lacan]]'s attention to the [[dimension ]] of the [[enunciation]]. =====Psychotic Language=====When [[Lacan ]] does come to use the term '"[[enunciation' ]]" in 1946, it is first of all to describe strange characteristics of [[psychotic ]] [[language]], with its '"duplicity of the enunciation' (."<ref>{{Ec, }} p.167). </ref> =====Subject of the Unconscious=====Later, in the 1950s, the term is used to locate the [[subject ]] of the [[unconscious]].  =====Graph of Desire=====In the [[graph of desire]], the lower [[signifying chain|chain ]] is the [[statement]], which is [[speech ]] in its [[conscious ]] dimension, while the upper [[signifying chain|chain ]] is '"the unconscious enunciation' (."<ref>{{E, }} p.316). </ref> =====Unconscious Enunciation=====In designating the [[enunciation ]] as [[unconscious]], [[Lacan ]] affirms that the source of [[speech ]] is not the [[ego]], nor [[consciousness]], but the [[unconscious]]; [[language ]] comes from the [[Other]], and the [[idea ]] that '"I' " am [[master ]] of my [[discourse ]] is only an [[delusion|illusion]].  =====Subject of the Statement or Enunciation=====The very [[word ]] "I" ('I' (Je'') is ambiguous; aS SHIFTERas [[shifter]], it is both a [[signifier ]] acting as [[subject ]] of the [[statement]], and an [[index ]] which designatesdesignate, but does not [[signification|signify]], the [[subject ]] of the [[enunciation (]].<ref>{{E, }} p.298). </ref> =====Split Subject=====The [[subject ]] is thus [[split ]] between these two levels, [[division|divided ]] in the very act of articulating the ''I '' that presents the [[delusion|illusion ]] of [[unity(see Sll, ]].<ref>{{S11}} p.139).</ref> ==See Also=={{See}}* ''[[Cogito]]''* [[Consciousness]]* [[Discourse]]||* [[Ego]]* [[Graph of desire]]* [[Language]]||* [[Other]]* [[Psychosis]]* [[Shifter]]||* [[Signifying chain]]* [[Speech]]* [[Split]]||* [[Statement]]* [[Subject]]* [[Unconscious]]{{Also}} ==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC__