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==The Statement and the Enunciation==In [[linguistics|linguistic theory]] in Europe, one important distinction is that between the [[enunciation]] ([[Fr]. ''[[{{Top}}énonciation]]'') and the [[statement]] ([[Fr]]. ''[[énoncé]]'').{{Bottom}}

This =====Translator's Note=====The [[distinction concerns two ways of regarding linguistic production]] between "''énoncé''" and "''énonciation''" is a common one in contemporary [[French]] [[thinking]].

When linguistic production "''Énoncé''", which is analyzed in terms of abstract grammatical units (such translated as sentences)"[[statement]]", independent of refers to the specific circumstances of occurrenceactual [[words]] uttered, it is referred "''énonciation''" to as a the act of uttering [[statementthem]].

===The ==Enunciation and Statement=====The In [[linguistics|linguistic theory]] in [[statementEurope]] ('', one important distinction is that between the [[énoncéenunciation]]'') refers to and the actual words uttered[[statement]].

The [[statement]] is analysed in terms of abstract grammar, independent of refers to the actual words uttered; the [[enunciation]] refers to the specific circumstances act of occurrenceuttering them.

===The Enunciation==Statement=====The A [[statement]] is [[enunciationspeech]] (''analysed in [[énonciationterms]]'') refers to of its abstract [[grammatical]] units, independent of the act specific circumstances of uttering themoccurrence.

The =====Enunciation=====An [[enunciation]] is [[speech]] [[analyzed ]] as an [[individual ]] act performed by a [[particular ]] [[speaker ]] at a specific [[time]] /[[place]], and in a specific [[situation]].

Long before In 1936, for example, he stresses that the act of [[speech|speaking]] contains a [[Lacanmeaning]] uses these termsin itself, he is aleayd making a similar distinctioneven if the words spoken are "[[signification|meaningless]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.83</ref>

In 1936, for example, he stresses that the act of speaking contains Prior to any function it may have in "conveying a meaning in itself[[message]], even if " [[speech]] is an appeal to the words spoken are "eamingless."<ref>{{Ec}} p[[other]].83</ref>

Prior to any function it may have in "conveying a message," [[speech]] is an appeal to the other. This attention to the act of [[speech|speaking ]] in itself, irrespective of the [[content ]] of the utterance, antici[ates anticipates [[Lacan]]'s attention to the dimension of the [[enunciation]]. -- ==The Subject==[[Lacandimension]] designates the [[enunciation]] as [[unconscious]], and affirms that the source of [[speech]] is not the [[ego]], nor [[consciousness]], but the [[unconscious]]; [[language]] comes from the [[Other]], and the idea that '[[I]]' am [[master]] of my [[discourse]] is only an [[illusion]].  The very word '[[I]]' (''Je'') is ambiguous; as a [[shifter]], it is both a [[signifier]] acting as [[subject]] of the [[statement]], and an index which designates, but does not [[signify]], the [[subject]] of the [[enunciation]].<ref>E, 298</ref> The [[subject]] is thus [[split]] between these two levels, divided in the very act of articulating the "I" that presents the [[illusion]] of [[unity]].<ref>Sll, 139</ref> ==Examples=====Speech Act===Lacan focuses his attention on the dimension of the [[enunciation]], the [[act]] of [[speaking]] in itself, irrespective of the content of the utterance. In 1936, [[Lacan]] states that the [[act]] of speaking contains a meaning in itself, even if the actual words spoken are "meaningless."<ref>{{Ec}} p.83</ref> [[Speech]], prior to any function it may have in "conveying a message," is an appeal to the [[other]]. ===Psychosis===In 1946, Lacan uses the term 'enunciation' to describe strange characteristics of psychotic language, with its "duplicity of the enunciation."<ref>{{Ec}} p.167</ref>  --

=====Unconscious Enunciation=====In designating the [[enunciation ]] as [[unconscious]], [[Lacan]] affirms that the source of [[speech]]is not the [[ego]], nor [[consciousness]], but the [[unconscious]]; [[language]] comes from the [[Other]], and the [[idea ]] that "iI" am [[master]] of my [[discourse]] is only an [[delusion|illusion]].

=====Subject of the Statement or Enunciation=====The very [[word ]] "I" (''Je'') is ambiguous; as [[shifter]], it is both a [[signifier]] acting as [[subject]] of the [[statement]], and an [[index]] which designate, but does not [[signification|signify]], the [[subject]] of the [[[enunciation]].<ref>{{E}} p.298</ref> The [[subject]] is thus [[split]] between these two levels, divided in the very act of articulating the ''I'' that presents the illusion of unity.<ref>{{S11}} p.139</ref> -- ===Subject of the Unconscious===In the 1950s, the term is used to locate the [[subject]] of the [[unconscious]].  ===Graph of Desire===In the [[graph of desire]], the lower [[chain]] is the [[statement]], which is [[speech]] in its [[conscious]] dimension, while the upper [[chain]] is "the [[unconscious]] [[enunciation]]."<ref>{{E}} p.316</ref>