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[[Lacan]] argues that it is necessary for [[psychoanalyst]]s to engage with such concerns, for when the [[analyst]] intervenes his action "goes to the heart of [the analysand's] being," and this also affects his own [[being]], since he cannot "remain alone outside the field of play."<ref>{{E}} p.228</ref>  Hence "it is certainly in the relation to being that the analyst has to find his operating level."<ref>{{E}} p.252</ref>

Whenever [[Lacan]] opposes [[being]] to [[existence]], it is with [[existence]] in the [[real]], which contrasts with the [[symbolic]] function of [[being]].   Something may thus ''be'' without ''[[existence|existing]]'', when it is constructed from [[speech]] but finds no correlate in the [[real]] (e.g. the complete [[Other]]).   Conversely, something may ''[[existence|exist]]'' without ''[[being]]'', such as the "ineffable, stupid existence" of the [[subject]], which cannot be completely reduced to a signifying articulation.<ref>{{E}} p.194</ref>

[[Lacan]] coins the neologism '''[[parlêtre]]''' from the verbal noun ''[[être]]'' ("[[being]]") and the verb ''[[speech|parler]]'' ("[[speech|to speak]]") to emphasize his point that [[being]] is constituted in and through [[language]].   A [[human]] [[being]] is above all a [[parlêtre|speaking being]].