The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis
| French: Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse |
Background
In 1951[1] 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 "Discours de Rome" ("Rome Discourse").[2]
Summary
This paper sets out Lacan's major concerns for the following decade:
- the distinction between speech and language,
- an understanding of the subject as distinct from the I, and, above all,
- the elaboration of the central concepts of the signifier and the symbolic order.
References
- ↑ At the Rome Congress of Romance Language Psychoanalysts, on the 26th of September, 1953.
- ↑ "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].
