« What exactly is a speaking body? What makes a body human is indeed that it is a speaking body. The term « speaking » here is not an adjective that would complete a predefined noun, the body, by adding to it the act of speaking. The common error made by psychology is to think that speech is a cognitive function of the body, an acquired behavior, although it is supported in an innate way within a profound structure of the organism. This is not the case. Neither speech nor language is reducible to cognitive functions, since these functions, considered as organic functions, depend on the already a priori relation of the subject to the signifier, to the structure of language, which precedes him as body and as being that speaks. Hence, a language is not learned, it is transmitted by the experience of jouissance which touches the body of the image. « Speaking » functions also in the expression « the speaking body » as an active participle or present participle, equivalent in some cases to the gerund. This doesn’t mean that a being exists there a priori, to which the property of speaking is added. It means that this being, as Lacan points out several times, is a being only to the extent that he speaks. In the same way, we must also point out that this being is only able to have a body insofar as he speaks, insofar as he is speaking or spoken. »
Contents
FOREWORD – Scilicet, The Speaking Body of the wap – Miquel Bassols 15
PRESENTATION – Scilicet of the Speaking Body – Marcus André Vieira 21
ORIENTATION – The Unconscious and the Speaking Body –
Jacques-Alain Miller 27
A
Amur – Maurizio Mazzotti (slp) 43
Anatomy – Adriana Meza (nel) 46
Androgyny – Luis Fernando Carrijo da Cunha (ebp) 49
Art-gueil – Francisco-Hugo Freda (ecf) 52
B
Baroque – Patricia Moraga (eol) 55
Beautiful / Ugly – Florencia Fernández Coria Shanahan (nls) 58
Bits of the Real – Paula Kalfus (eol) 61
Body Art – Marisa Morao (eol) 64
Body Image / Imaginary Body – Alfredo Zenoni (ecf) 67
C
Castration (and Parlêtre) – Corinne Rezki (ecf) 70
Celebrity – Antonella Del Monaco (slp) 73
Child’s Body – Neus Carbonell (elp) 76
Coming Out – Grace Tarpey (nls) 79
Corporisation. The Mystery of the Body that Speaks – Blanca Sánchez (eol) 82
Cosmetics – Gabriela Basz (eol) 85
D
Dasein (and Copulation) – Manuel Férnandez Blanco (elp) 88
Defence – Maria Arminda Brinco de Freitas (ecf) 91
Delusion – Andrés Borderias (elp) 94
Drive and Speaking Body – Marisa Chamizo (eol) 97
Dupery (Necessary) – Dominique Laurent (ecf) 100
E
Ego (and the Body) – Cecilia Gasbarro (eol) 103
Ego Ideal / Ideal Ego (and Speaking Being) – Viviana Berger (nel) 105
Enjoying Substance – Laura Arciniegas S. (nel) 109
Escabeau (and Schoenberg) – Carlos Rossi (eol) 112
Escabeau / S.K.beau (and Duchamp) – Hervé Castanet (ecf) 115
Event (and Jouissance of the Body) – Sergio Caretto (slp) 118
Excess – Francis Ratier (ecf) 121
Exhibition / Pornography – Jean-Luc Monnier (ecf) 124
F
Fantasy (Window – Screen) – Victoria Horne-Reinoso (ecf) 127
Feminine Jouissance and the Woman’s Body – Céline Menghi (slp) 130
Fitness (Taking Care of the Body) – Rosane da Fonte (ebp) 133
Fixation, Repetition, Reiteration – Adrián Scheinkestel (eol) 136
Flesh and Merleau-Ponty – Éric Zuliani (ecf) 139
Formal Envelope – Frank Rollier (ecf) 142
Fragmented Body – Eduardo Suárez (eol) 145
Freudian Unconscious – Marta Serra Frediani (elp) 148
G
Gaze – Deborah Gutermann-Jacquet (ecf) 151
I
I Think Therefore It Enjoys (and Descartes) – Yves Vanderveken (nls) 154
Id (and Parlêtre) – José Fernando Veláquez (nel) 157
Ill-Treatments – Oscar Reymundo (ebp) 160
Imaginary – Massimo Termini (slp) 163
Inhibition – Joaquín Caretti Ríos (elp) 166
Interpretation and Body Event – Inés Sotelo (eol) 169
Intimacy – Jorge Assef (eol) 172
Invention and Sinthome – Charles-Henri Crochet (ecf) 175
J
Jouissance of the Body – Nora Pessoa Gonçalves (ebp) 178
Joyce (Sinthome and Escabeau) – Domenico Cosenza (slp) 181
L
L’Une-bévue – Henri Kaufmanner (ebp) 184
Lacanian Unconscious – Carlos Augusto Nicéas (ebp) 187
Lalangue – Camilo Ramirez (ecf) 190
M
Mass Individualism (and Segregation) – Félix Rueda (elp) 193
Masturbation – Darío Galante (eol) 196
Mental (and Debility) – Rosa Elena Manzetti (slp) 199
N
Name of Jouissance – Danièle Lacadée-Labro (ecf) 202
Narcissism (in the 21st Century) – Adriana Testa (eol) 205
Nudity – Amanda Goya (elp) 208
O
Obesity – Cristina Drummond (ebp) 211
Objects Outside the Body – Sonia Mankoff (eol) 214
One-Body – Esthela Solano-Suárez (ecf) 217
Oracle – Kuky Mildiner (eol) 220
Organs and Organism – Alain Merlet (ecf) 223
Orgasm – Anne Béraud (nls) 226
P
Parlêtre (and Unconscious) – Rose-Paule Vinciguerra (ecf) 229
Pass and Escabeau – Jacqueline Dhéret (ecf) 232
Père-versions – Sophie Gayard (ecf) 235
Perversion and Speaking Body – Diana Campolongo (eol) 238
Phallus and Phallic Jouissance – Stella Jimenez (ebp) 241
Pleasure – Elida Ganoza (nel) 244
Pornography – Paola Francesconi (slp) 247
Privacy – Àngel Sanabria (nel) 250
Prohibition / Permission – Ana Ricaurte (nel) 253
Psychosomatics – Maria do Carmo Dias Batista (ebp) 256
R
Rims of the Body – Ana Simonetti (eol) 259
S
Segregation of Bodies: On Pornography – Diana Bergovoy (nls) 262
Selfie – Juan Felipe Arango (nel) 265
Semantic Vacuity (and Hegel) – Carlos Márquez (nel) 268
Semblants (the Failure of) – Patricia Tassara (elp) 271
Sex Toy – Marco Focchi (slp) 274
Sexual Identity – François Ansermet (nls) 277
Sexual Learning – Veronique Voruz (nls) 280
Speaking Body / Parlêtre – Antonio Di Ciaccia (slp) 283
Spectacle – Adriana Laión (eol) 286
Specular Image – Mónica Pelliza (nel) 289
Speech (and Jouissance of Speech) – Réginald Blanchet (nls) 292
Surplus Jouissance – Manuel Montalbán Pereguín (elp) 295
Symptom of Another’s Symptom – Lucia D’Angelo (elp) 298
Symptom of the Parlêtre – Raffaele Calabria (slp) 301
T
Tattoos / Piercings – Leticia A. Acevedo (eol) 304
Technique (the Empire of) – Luiz Henrique Vidigal (ebp) 307
Transference and Body – Bernard Seynhaeve (ecf) 310
Transparency – Vera Avellar Ribeiro (ebp) 313
V
Very Last Teaching – Margarita Álvarez (elp) 316
Virtual Image – Ennia Favret (eol) 319
Voyeur – Maria Marciani (eol) 322
W
Weaker Sex (The)? – Stella Harrison (ecf) 325