The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis
| French: Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse |
Background
In 1953[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]
Also in 1953, Lacan and a group of colleagues left the Société psychanalytique de Paris (SPP) to form the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP).
The Rome Discourse came to be seen as the founding document of the SFP, and of a new direction in psychoanalysis.
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].
Index
- Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore, On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge 1972-1973. Trans. Bruce Fink. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. pp. 27-28
