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The [[Rome Discourse]] marked [[Lacan]]'s break with the [[International Psychoanalytical Association|analytic establishment]] and the [[formation ]] of his own [[school]] of [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic thought]].

In it [[Lacan]] catigated contemporary [[psychoanalytic theory]] and [[practice]] and proposed a radical revision of the [[whole ]] [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic]] field.

The main thrust of the [[Rome Discourse]] pushes for the revision of [[psychoanalysis]] by a [[return]] to the study of the properties of [[language]], with which the early [[Freud ]] was particularly concerned.

It is a long and difficult [[text]], covering a wide variety of issues, some of which are fully developed, while [[others ]] are merely mentioned briefly.

Our aim here is not to [[outline ]] its main points, concentrating on those most relevant to [[psychoanalysis]].

In the [[Rome Discourse]] [[Lacan]] questioned the main [[concepts ]] of [[psychoanalysis]] and took up issues shared with such [[science|human sciences]] as [[linguistics]], [[philosophy]] and [[anthropology]].

In [[Lacan]]'s view, [[psychoanalysis]] is distinguished from [[other ]] disciplines in that the [[analyst]] works on the [[subject]]'s [[speech]].

<blockquote>"Whether it sees itself as an [[instrument ]] of healing, or of exploration in depth, psychoanalysis has only a single medium: the [[patient]]'s speech."<ref>{{E}} p. 40</ref></blockquote>

From the [[birth ]] of [[analysis]], [[language]] has been its primary field of [[action ]] and the priveleged instrument of its efficacy, it is the "talking [[cure]]."<ref>{{SE}} 2. p. 30</ref>