JACQUES LACAN. UN INTERVIU
Jacques Lacan. An interview

Summary/Abstract: The following text is an introductory study to a Romanian version of the interview given by Jacques Lacan to the Italian magazine Panorama in 1974. I’ve used for the translation the English online version of the interview published by versobooks.com in 2014. My text would function as well as an independent research article in the realm of psychoanalysis. Lacan’s thoughts laid out within the respective interview evoke the peculiar relation between psychoanalysis as a conjectural science of language and the contemporary situation of religion, exact science and conventional therapy. His vibrant discourse has naturally the force to motivate the realisation of a study based on some of the strong concepts produced or rather reinforced by his teaching. The main thesis formulated by Lacan within this interview is that language, i.e., the world of speech, creates – namely through the intermediary of a concrete-subjective but no less universal and addressed discourse – the world of things. The signifier as a speech act affects the individual and solicits a response on his side: the (ethical) quality of this indeed subjective response contributes to the formation of a symbolic body able to mediate the circulation between the real of the organism and the radical Other. One corollary is that to a humanity deprived of an ethical rapport to language the world itself is reducible to an empty and painful structure. Another corollary, one which is relevant to my research program, is that affectivity as a subjective, namely as an inter-corporeal reality, is an effect of language, i.e., of a speech act that places from the very beginning all relevant subjects in a symbolic structure that sustains a shared phenomenal reality. Or, in Lacan’s own words: “Psychoanalysis’s discovery is man-as-speaking-animal”.

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