TY - BOOK AU - Harari,Roberto TI - The Speech Act: Reality and Truth PY - 2003///. N1 - 14 N2 - Speech acts belong to the act category. In this sense, they share the same features: they have a start, a break, repetition, a lack of consciousness when they are being produced and ignorance of their specific consequences, unexpectedness, and effective interpretation only after the act itself. For this reason we can understand it as Verleugnung (or denial), without it being an indication of perversion. Secondly, by comparing the notion of speech act with Austin’s ideas on the performative bias of language, psychoanalysts need to suspend their judgment about the language of its “external” referent, as phenomenology does: this means working with language as a referent of language itself. We put aside the question of the truth—or otherwise—of the exogenous, external referent of language. We abandon the concept of language being a universal system to replace it with the Lacanian near-witticism, “ lalangue.” Obviously, we can see how the universal falls down through the deletion of the determinative article, and how babbling occurs through sound. Once again, this involves the reality of language and not just its symbolic apprehension. Finally, the patient’s ability to trigger their pulsional turmoil invested with inventive nomination occurs through the production of speech acts during the therapy session UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-cliniques-mediterraneennes-2003-2-page-163?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -