ABSTRACT
Julia Kristeva is a philosopher and linguist, a full member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and professor of literature and semiotics in the University of Paris VII. 'Speech in psychoanalysis' challenges this horizontal questioning itself; for, on the vertical axis of the system of language, 'speech in psychoanalysis' ruins the work of language - and, with it, the tyranny of identification with the substitutes of the paternal function. When the disciplines of phenomenology, and then semiology, were able to lend an ear to the Freudian discovery of the unconscious - but also to the 'gay science' of language brought by the modern 'great writers' - a revolution was, and still is, underway concerning the understanding of what 'speech' means. It involves traversing the surface of the object 'language' made up of signs and predicative syntheses in order to reach what Husserl called the hyle, the matter left outside the 'bracketing' in the act of signifying.
