There must be something outside

Certainly, in a sense, it is possible to affirm that everything is language, but at the same time, the problem is that if there is no any exterior point with regard to the language, there would be no exit, precisely to the question that we will try to answer today: Who speaks? In other words, in order that the subject speaks in his own right, so he can assume responsibility for a statement that goes beyond repeating or echoing the learned words, there must be something outside. And it is true that it costs to see something outside. In a way we could say yes, we live in a language world, and within this world we could say that all are words, but, despite everything, there is a point outside that does precisely that, in the task of speaking, the subject could find an exterior point of support to language, which can work as, exactly, the point of support that Archimedes said it is necessary to move any weight. We need a foothold.

Enric Berenguer

Enric Berenguer. Psychoanalyst, Member of School of psychoanalysis from Barcelona and the global partnership of Psychoanalysis, translator of Lacan's seminars since 1992. Clinical psychologist, professor, coordinator of mental health centers, psychoanalyst and writer, among other offices, this Spanish has written books-seminar on "The significance of the phallus", "How to build a case?" and "Psychoanalysis: guidelines, lessons, discussions". He has also written articles for magazines with psychoanalysis as Otium, Sínthoma, Colofón, Carretel, Ornicar?, La lettre mensuelle, Noventa, The Psychoanalysis, Freudiana, Le Cause Freudienne, Quimera and for the newspaper El Pais (Spain).