The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis (Rome) : 26th September 1953 : Jacques Lacan

by Julia Evans on September 26, 1953

There are two published items from the Rome Congress held at the Istituto di Psicologia della Università di Roma on 26^th and 27^th September1953.

The Rome report (which is this one) &
Discours de Rome et réponses aux interventions (Rome) : 26th September 1953 : Jacques Lacan : Information & availability in French here

Please note : One of the Rome Discourses is published Autres Écrits: 2001 : Jacques Lacan : Availability here

Quoted by Jacques Lacan

Seminar IV : 19^thDecember 1956 : see See Seminar IV : The Object Relation & Freudian Structures 1956-1957 : begins 21st November 1956 : Jacques Lacan or here

Index of Post

Availability in translation to English
Availability in French
Commentaries
References to Sigmund Freud’s texts
References

The Rome Report – Availability in translation to English

Report to the Rome Congress held at the Istituto di Psicologia della Università di Roma  26^th and 27^th September 1953.

– The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis (1953) :

translated by Anthony Wilden :

Published in

‘The Language of the Self – The function of language in Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan’ : 1968 : Anthony Wilden : Information here

Available [here]

7^thDecember 2018 : To request a copy of any text whose weblink does not work, contact Julia Evans: je.lacanian@icloud.com : For fuller details, see Notice : Availability of texts from LacanianWorks by Julia Evans or here

This translation omits Jacques Lacan’s preface.

Anthony Wilden’s Translator’s notes (Recommended) : Available here

Anthony Wilden’s Prefatory Note replaces Jacques Lacan’s Preface : Available here [pxxiii to pxxviii]

Anthony Wilden’s Bibliography here

– The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis (1953) :

translated by Alan Sheridan :

Published in Écrits, A Selection : London, Tavistock, 1977 : p114-145 :

Available [here]

– ‘The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis (1953)’

Translated by Bruce Fink

Published in Écrits, Jacques Lacan, The first complete edition in English : W.W. Norton & Co : 2002 : p197-268

Availability Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan or here

Availability in French

– Published by www.aejcpp.free.fr : here

– Or probably by École Lacanienne de Psychanalyse – pas tout Lacan : www.ecole-lacanienne.net/ Lacan/ Pas-Tout Lacan : Now p447 to 502 of here

– Cette première version de ‘Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse” parut dans ‘La psychanalyse’ No 1, 1956, Sur la parole et le langage, pages 81-166:

– In French included in the Écrits, published 1966 (Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanlyse : p237-322), Further details are given Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan or here

Commentaries:

‘The Language of the Self – The function of language in Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan’ : 1968 : Anthony Wilden : Further information here

Translator’s note & Bibliography Note from ‘Écrits: a selection’: 1977: Alan Sheridan : Information here

A Reader’s Guide to Écrits: 1982: John P. Muller and William J. Richardson : Information here :

Commentary on Chapter 3: The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis …. p67 : Available here

Section headings with references

Note: W = Wilden S=Sheridan

Preface p31S

Introduction p3W : Introduction p34S

P5W : Ferenczi, “Confusion of Tongues between the Adult and the Child,” International Journal of Psycho-Analysis [Henceforth abbreviated IJP], XXX (1949), iv, 225-30.

I : The Empty Word and the Full Word p9W :

I Empty speech and full speech in the psychoanalytic realization of the subject p40S

p18W : g : GW, XII, 71; Cinq psychanalyses, Presses Universitaires de France, p. 356, weak translation of the term. : Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis : 1909: Sigmund Freud : available here

P18W : h : GW, XII, 72, n.1, last few lines The concept of Nacträglichkeit is to be found once more stressed in the note. Cinq psychanalyses, p356, n.1. [Standard Edition, XVII, 45, n.1.]

II : Symbol and Language p29W :

II Symbol and language as structure and limit of the psychoanalytic field : p56S

p31W : See The Interpretation of Dreams: 1st November 1899 (published as 1900): Sigmund Freud or here : Standard Edition, IV, p151 & p157-158

p34W : p See: C. I. Oberndorf, “Unsatisfactory Results of Psychoanalytic Therapy,” Psycho-analytic Quarterly, XIX, p393-407

P48W : w : See: Claude Lévi-Strauss “Language and the Analysis of Social Laws,” American Anthropologist, Vol.53, No. 2 (April-June, l95l), pp. 155-63. [A French adaptation of the original article is published in Anthropologie Structurale (Paris:Plon, 1958), of which there is an English translation]

p48W : Kant : Critique of Pure Reason : Introduction to the transcendental aesthetic, Section IV:

P49W : On the Galilean hypothesis and Huyghens’ chronometer, see: Alexandre Koyré, “An experiment in Measurement,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 97 (April, 1953).

III : Interpretation and Temporality p53W : III The resonances of interpretation and the time of the subject in psychoanalytic technique

: p77S

p58W : bb The Theory of Symbolism : 1916 : Ernest Jones : Availability & information here & Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan or here

See the article : “A la mémoire d’Ernest Jones : Sur sa théorie du symbolisme,” La Psychanalyse V (1960), pp. l-20; Ecrits, pp.697-717]. Availability given Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan or here. See also The Theory of Symbolism : 1916 : Ernest Jones : Availability here

P58W : cc : The reference is to the teaching of Abhinavagupta (tenth century). See : Dr. Kanti Chandra Pandey, “Indian Esthetics,” Chowkamtba Sansktrit Series, Studies, Vol. II, Benares, 1950

P59W : dd : Ego psychology and interpretation in psychoanalytic therapies (Dream ‘fresh brains’) : December 1948 (New York) [1951] : Ernst Kris or here pp. 15-29, in particular the passage quoted on pp.27-28. [For further commentary on this article, see Introduction and reply to Jean Hyppolite’s presentation of Freud’s ‘Verneinung’ & the commentary : 10th February 1954 : Jacques Lacan & Jean Hyppolite Information here pp. 52-58 of the French text]

P64W : The therapeutic effect of inexact interpretation : a contribution to the theory of suggestion : October 1931 : Edward Glover or here

P65W ; Robert Fliess : “Silence and Verbalization. A Supplement to the Theory of the ‘Analytic Rule,”‘ IJP, XXX, l.