ABSTRACT
The invocatory drive was a discovery of Lacan’s. However, it had already been at play since Freud’s invention of a treatment based exclusively on speech. The percussive nature of sound in the first time of invocation evokes the inscription of an initial Bejahung. The invocatory drive can fail, just like the other drives, and these failures will have structural consequences on the development of the very young subject. The newborn has a musical appetite for vocal exchanges with the partner, mother or father. The field of the characteristics and function of the paternal voice as object remains relatively unexplored, but the author was able to find some suggestions in the work of Anne Alvarez and Genevieve Haag. It requires at the very least a kind of know-how capable of spotting the traits in the tiny child that present themselves insistently, and treating them in such a way that they are elevated to the level of language.
