Abstract

MALISKA, Maurício Eugênio. Between body and language: the voice in opera. Tempo psicanal. [online]. 2012, vol.44, n.1, pp. 71-82. ISSN 0101-4838.

This text analyzes the voice in opera singing and its relationship with the body and language within the interior of the psychoanalytic practice. When the voice is used for singing, such as opera singing, it seems to abandon the strong presence of the symbolic world of language, to touch the body. It echoes a reality of the body that does not stop not inscribing itself, where the words loose their connections with the symbolic order to become pure voice devoid of the law of meaning. In opera, what is in scene is a voice that is not merely language, such as speech, nor a body voice as pure sound, but a voice that points to the "realanguage" of the psychoanalytic practice.

Keywords : voice; opera; body; jouissance; language.

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