ABSTRACT
The path is open towards a redefinition of the social link, by taking into account what Western thought, for its own historical reasons, misrecognizes: the mechanism of the institution of images, as the gravitational point of every normative system. The social link only establishes insofar as it is conveyed by speech. The society only implements its function of power because it itself depends on discourse. The social constitution of speech, as institutional translation of the mechanism of the representation and of division, is founded on this articulation, which renders the exchange between society and subject possible and effective. The Eucharistic sacrament resumes the two moments of the Imago Dei, the mythic inaugural moment and the moment of interpretation for the subject. From sacramental myth to oedipal staging, socially inscribed within the industrial culture, Western humanity indefinitely elaborates the universal material on its own account – the symbolic questioning on which constitution of speech leans in humanity.
