Abstract

ALMEIDA, Ricardo Monteiro Guedes de. The letter and the writing are not to be read. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2020, vol.26, n.2, pp. 776-794. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2020v26n2p776-794.

The concept of a letter calls for a discussion about the practice of psychoanalytic interpretation. Thus, we aim to make a course about the letter and the Lacanian hypothesis that the writing is not meant to be read. We turn to a theoretical study where, at first, we deal with the signifier and the letter, as Lacan proposed in the text The instance of the letter in the unconscious, or the reason since Freud. Later, we delved into the distinction between these two concepts, aiming at the Seminar, Book 18. Finally, we discuss Lacan’s statement about the impossibility of reading the writing. Considering the role that the letter and the function of the writing assume in the field of jouissance and in the scope of an analysis, we conclude the letter is not only distinct from the signifier but also corresponds to a writing that is in the real, thus representing the incidence limit of meaning and interpretation itself.

Keywords : Significant; Letter; Function of writing; Jouissance.

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