The Subject Spoken

Consciousness is, psychoanalytically speaking, accompanied by the unconscious. The unconscious is articulated in language by means of distorted and disrupted elements of meaning, which on a level of understanding pertain to nonsense – the subject of psychoanalytical interpretation. Locating the disruptions in relation to the overall context of meaning the site of the trauma is revealed in a symptomatic occurrence of the signifiers of the unconscious meaning in the speech. While the subject speaks it is also according to Lacan spoken by the unconscious. Any strictly semantic analysis of the unconscious, as the unconscious according to Freud “knows no contradiction”, misses the hidden meaning of the unconscious. Both sides of the meaning, the conscious and the unconscious, which accounts for the whole meaning, and ultimately the truth, is structurally impossible to grasp at once. As Lacan claims, the truth can only be “half-spoken”. The other half is embodied; the language of speaking body, which is enjoyment (jouissance); a language by which one is spoken.