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The term "founding speech" (sometimes rendered "foundational speech") emerges in Lacan's work at the time of his growing attention to [[Lacanlanguage]] in the early 1950s. The point Lacan draws attention to in his use of this term is concerned with the way that [[speech]] can radically transform both the speaker and the addressee in the act of utterance.The Lacan's two favoirate examples of this are the phrases "You are my master/teacher (''maItre'')" and "You are my wife," which serve to position the speaker as "pupil' and "husband" respectively. In order words, the crucial aspect of founding speech is that it not only transforms the other but also transforms the subject.<ref>{{E }} p.85</ref>  <blockquote>"Founding speech, which envelops the subject, is everything that has constituted him, his parnts, his neighbours, the whole structure of his community, and not only constituted him as symboli, but constituted him in his being."<ref>{{S2}} p.20</ref></blockquote>

[[Lacan]] plays on the homophony between ''tu es ma mère'' )'you are my mother') and ''tuer ma mère'' ('to kill my mother') to illustrate the way that the [[founding speech]] addressed to the other may reveal a [[repression|repressed]] murderous [[desire]].<ref>{{E }} p.269</re>  ---- [[Lacan]] is concerned with the way that [[speech]] can radically transform both the speaker and the addressee in the act of utterance. The crucial aspect of founding speech is that it not only transforms the other but also transforms the subject.<ref>{{E}} p.85</ref>

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