Abstract

BARBOSA, Keylla  and  CAMARGO ANGELUCCI, Thalita. At the Beginning of the Path, there was a Hole: Subject, Language, and Figuration of the Real. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp. 1-11. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v21i2.e10888.

This article aims to discuss the conceptions of subject, language, discourse, and figuration of the real as being intimately linked and articulated by the Lacanian notion of the hole (trou). Although this last notion is explained later in the teaching of this psychoanalyst, we can find other indications of what this structural hole would be since the beginning of his elaborations. From the establishment of a hypothesis about a lack of symbolic-structural order at the level of language, we will bring it closer to the concept of discursive act proposed by Benveniste. We know that these two authors - Benveniste and Lacan - engaged in an extensive dialogue throughout the construction of their ideas. However, here, our objective will be to demonstrate how these authors' conceptions of language and reality irremediably lead us to the following hypothesis: it is not because the world is speakable that language exists, but, on the contrary, it is the language that makes the world unspeakable, for in it is the impossibility of saying it.

Keywords : language; hole; speech; real; symbolic.

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