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“Lalangue” in Questions
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by Dominique Simonney
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2012/2 (No 29)

Pages : 224

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ISBN : 9782749234458

DOI : 10.3917/ess.029.0007 English

Lacan’s neologism “lalangue” is a fusion of the signifiers “langue” (language/tongue)

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and “la” (the). The term thus merges the article and the noun. Born of a collision of

two signifiers, this term was heavily commented on during the course of Lacan’s
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teachings following his first mention of it in November 1971 at a conference at Sainte

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Anne’s Hospital. Among others, Lacan specified it to be the mother tongue which,
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through its modulations and its musicality (la la), names the infant’s first objects.

“Lalangue” is at least partially outside of language laws (a topic examined by J.C.

Milner). Yet, “lalangue” is not a language: Lacan reverts to Dante’s love poems and

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what he sees as a failure to create a new language. Whereas “lalangue” speaks a

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certain music (harmony?) of love, it remains untamed by the frame of language that

Your e-mail speaks otherwise through its laws: rules, limits, and thus castration. The issue of

“lalangue” raises questions for psychoanalytic treatment. This concept has been

See example Subscribe ➜ amply studied by psychoanalysts. However, most of their findings are in conflict with

regards to its use in treatment. This paper argues that “lalangue” should be

interpreted as an unidentified voice object in psychoanalysis.

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