ABSTRACT
In this chapter Lacan spoke of 'lalangue' to show a babbling of language which gradually shapes a person's discourse by aligning social myths of the symbolic with a sense of identity in the imaginary. Discourse, for Lacan, makes a social link. In Lacan's discourse theory, language is enunciated alternately and simultaneously from the signifiers and the a, each quarter turn of the elements in the four discourses producing first the position of master, then the academic. He says Love appears in a change of discourse, that moves people, that traverses itself, no one is immune to its impact. In Lacan's theory the object a, is inferred between signifiers, making of language a writing about and around the missing object. Lacan says the signifier is situated at the level of the substance jouissance. Lacan's analytic discourse aims to break down the usual resistance that keep people from learning who they are, as distinct from who they think they are.
