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The term '[[founding speech]]' (Fr.''[[founding speech|parole fondant]]'') is used by [[Jacques Lacan]] in his work during the early 1950s.  The term "founding speech" (sometimes rendered "foundational speech") emerges in Lacan's work at the time of his growing attention to [[language]] in the early 1950s. The point Lacan draws attention to in his use of this term is the way that speech can radically transform both the speaker and the addressee in the act of utterance. Lacan's two favoirate favorate 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>

[[Lacan]] refers to the same function of [[speech]] as '"elective speech' " in the [[seminar ]] of 1955-6 and as '"votive speech' " in the [[seminar ]] of 1956-7.

[[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>