ABSTRACT
Jacques Lacan revolutionised psychoanalytical interpretation by shifting it from hermeneutics to inciting analysands to find their own answers and meanings. Interpretation is always performed within this conceptual framework of the analytic act. Analytic interpretation is a performance with words and silences for the analysand to perceive the hollow shell of his or her desires. An "act" in analysis, such as the cut, is wordless. Oracular interpretation is not prophecy but rather a sign. Lacan started evoking the oracle in 1958 as an example of analytical interpretation. The speech act is the key to psychoanalytical interpretation. The Lacanian trauma, insofar as it is the first encounter with the jouissance of lalangue, goes hand in hand with the Freudian sexual trauma. The capacity of analytical interpretation as equivocation should bring into play ambiguities, homonyms, rhymes, puns, musicality, and other features of Lalangue. As a form or inflection of verbal communication, enunciation is a style of verbal communication that always compounds the utterance.
