Abstract

GABBI JR., Osmyr Faria. Concerning the use of language in psychoanalysis. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2007, vol.30, n.45, pp.109-114. ISSN 0101-3106.

As an empirical research, psychoanalysis demands a principle to instantiate the psychoanalytic experience. The notion that every psychic act is a fulfillment of a wish was adopted by Freud as a constitutive, but not as a regulative principle. As a result, he formulated a metaphysic of desire and he conceived language as a mean to indicate wishes.We argue that it is more sound to adopt the same principle as regulative and to conceive language as a speech act.

Keywords : Speech acts; Constitutive and regulative principle; Psychoanalysis and language; S. Freud.

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