ABSTRACT
Lacanian Discourse Analysis may not go beyond the narrow limits of the discourse articulated by the Other. This Other is the only one with whom we deal in discourse, and it is just a signifying structure of language. However, this structure offers unfathomable possibilities for our analytical work, for instance, by analyzing the transindividual place of discourse, it is possible to penetrate into the symbolic system of culture that underlies, governs, organizes and unifies what we call ‘society’. Now, if this system embraces our analyzing discourse and not only the analyzed, how can we make our analytical work without being in complicity with the system and with its knowledge? How can we deal in our analysis with acts that are not simple systemic activity, events that break the functioning of the system, symptomatic irruptions of un-analyzable truth and resultant disruptions of analyzable knowledge? These challenges, as well as the possibilities and limits of Lacanian Discourse Analysis, will be illustrated in this chapter through the analysis of narco-messages left with bodies of people killed by drug cartels in Mexico.
