ABSTRACT
The disaster registers but escapes "the very possibility of experience", and, at the limit of writing, acts to dissolve meaning, to undo writing. The disaster puts therapists own experience, their very existence, out of reach; all meanings or interpretations are erased. The lapsus is the disaster that de-scribes, erases meaning. What is at play in writing, both inside and outside psychosis, is something melodious in language, music put to use to say something, and yet to sing without signification. To explain the marvellous word “lalangue” play would be, in effect, to kill it in transmission, so the author is going to present a short play. The characters are six writers, all but the first one of them acknowledged as writers of reputation: Barbara Suckfoll, Robert Walser, Janet Frame, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, and Tomas Transtromer. Although J. Lacan gave a whole seminar premised on Joyce having a psychotic structure, James Joyce never experienced a psychotic crisis.
