Ontology of speech in psychoanalysis: from S. Spielrein’s theory of aphasia to the transfer theory by J. Lacan

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of speech and language phenomena in theoretical psychoanalytical system of Sabina Spielrein. In addition, it attempts to come closer to understanding of the phenomenon of speech in Sabina Spielrein’s theory, to the understanding based on similar ideas about the speech of Jacques Lacan. Consciousness of time plays an important role in defining the boundaries of reality as a speech-tool. Ontology of speech is a prerequisite condition of theoretical understanding of aphasia. Concept is the time of a thing, its function is to make a choice of the level of sense for every word in its belonging to the idea or to the event in our past. This choice is made unconsciously. The theory of S. Spielrein and J. Lacan may serve as an illustration for the concept of Logologie of speech.

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, speech, ontology, reality, transference, aphasia, acousmatique, full speech, consciousness of time