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The term "[[founding speech]]" -- sometimes rendered "[[founding speech|foundational speech]]" -- emerges in Lacan's [[work ]] at the [[time ]] of his growing attention to [[language]] in the early 1950s.<ref>{{L}}. "[[Works of Jacques Lacan|Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse]].''" 1953a. In {{Ec}} p. 237-322. ("[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis|The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis]].") In {{E}}. p. 30-113</ref>

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 favorate examples of this are the phrases "You are my [[master]]/teacher (''maître'')" 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's two 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> <blockquote>"Founding speech, which envelops the subject, is everything that has constituted him, his parnts[[parents]], 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]] 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</ref>

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