#redirect ------The [[The_function_and_field_of_speech_and_language_in_psychoanalysisRome Discourse]]marked [[Lacan]]'s break with the [[International Psychoanalytical Association|analytic establishment]] and the [[formation]] of his own [[school]] of [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic thought]]. Characterized by a mardedly polemical style of presentation, it is a manifesto of the aims of [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]]. In it [[Lacan]] catigated contemporary [[psychoanalytic theory]] and [[practice]] and proposed a radical revision of the [[whole]] [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic]] field. ------ The main thrust of the [[Rome Discourse]] pushes for the revision of [[psychoanalysis]] by a [[return]] to the study of the properties of [[language]], with which the early [[Freud]] was particularly concerned. It is a long and difficult [[text]], covering a wide variety of issues, some of which are fully developed, while [[others]] are merely mentioned briefly. Our aim here is not to [[outline]] its main points, concentrating on those most relevant to [[psychoanalysis]]. ------ In the [[Rome Discourse]] [[Lacan]] questioned the main [[concepts]] of [[psychoanalysis]] and took up issues shared with such [[science|human sciences]] as [[linguistics]], [[philosophy]] and [[anthropology]]. In [[Lacan]]'s view, [[psychoanalysis]] is distinguished from [[other]] disciplines in that the [[analyst]] works on the [[subject]]'s [[speech]]. <blockquote>"Whether it sees itself as an [[instrument]] of healing, or of exploration in depth, psychoanalysis has only a single medium: the [[patient]]'s speech."<ref>{{E}} p. 40</ref></blockquote> From the [[birth]] of [[analysis]], [[language]] has been its primary field of [[action]] and the priveleged instrument of its efficacy, it is the "talking [[cure]]."<ref>{{SE}} 2. p. 30</ref> ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
