Speaking Subjects

Close attention to Lacan’s writing provides a basis for discerning an account of subjectivity in terms of speech and in terms of the option of refusal of a position as a speaking subject. In this exercise a reference to the Symbolic Order is indispensable. What are the grounds for our insistence on speech being the basis of psychoanalytic practice? It is, to be sure, something more than the slogan that ‘it’s good to talk’.…