ABSTRACT
The motion of interpretation in speech renders the object and is therein arrested. The act of interpretation is an arrest of movement, but only a temporary one. The act of interpretation is always a move in time. In fact, the arrest of movement by interpretation aims at resuming the movement of desire. One may say that interpretation in S. Freud's time is comparable to perspective—a form of knowledge that refers to the representation of reality—whereas interpretation according to J. Lacan is closer to the grid. If interpretation is supposed to lead to the construction and crossing of the phantasme, then they both must have a similar structure that is two-directional, Mobian, as in the phantasme described by Freud in his essay "'A Child Is Being Beaten'". In this phantasme, the beating is simultaneously both a punishment and a source of pleasure. The structure of the phantasme is one of "but also".
