ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shows in an exemplary sophism of intersubjective time, the function of haste in logical precipitation, where truth finds its unsupersedable condit. He tackles the function of speech in analysis from its least rewarding angle, that of ‘empty’ speech, where the subject seems to be talking in vain about someone who, even if he were his spitting image, can never become one with the assumption of his desire. The theme was suggested to the author as the basis of the customary theoretical report for the annual meeting of the society, which, at that time, represented psychoanalysis in France. The discourse takes on a phallic-urethral, anal-erotic, or even an oral-sadistic function. There is a language-barrier opposed to speech, and the precautions against verbalism that are a theme of the discourse of the ‘normal’ man in our culture merely serve to reinforce its thickness.
