ABSTRACT
In the transcription of the interview 'From Speech to Writing', Roland Barthes 'speaks' of the trap of scription, of the snare of the written word, which deprives the spoken word of its innocence. It comprises instead of those blunders of speech, the breaks and irresolution, the pregnant pauses, the silences, the noise, which accompany verbal communications such as an interview. The voice is the product of a complex physical process, formed by air expelled from the lungs, pushed up the trachea into the larynx, impelled through the vocal folds, where it is then sculpted by the pharynx and the motions of the jaw, the tongue and the lips. The figure, the trope, the carrier of sense, the provider of outline, falters in their works. Sense fades. It is only through such an undoing of the figure, through a compression of language which causes the boundaries between units of sense to dissolve, that horror can be truly accessed.
