ABSTRACT
The term parletre is introduced in the second lecture on Joyce published in 1979 in the volume Joyce avec Lacan. With the periodisation of Lacan's teaching, a prejudiced reading occurs which suggests several, successive Lacans: first, the one of speech and language, then, that of the object a, finally, that of jouissance and of the Real. Periodisation, leading us to expect what will come at the end, sometimes has a pedagogic value, but it does not respect what to characterise Lacan's epistemology. This certainly brings together startling speed and progress, but in an elaboration that proceeds by continually revising the previous set of notions, without negating them. "Parlêtre will be substituted for the Freudian UCS". He thus contradicts his own Television in which, questioned about the term "unconscious", he said that Freud had not found a better one, and added: "it's not to be revised".
