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When [[Lacan]] begins -- in 1953 -- to analyze in detail the function of [[speech]] in [[psychoanalysis]], he emphasizes that [[speech]] is essentially an [[intersubjective]] process.
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[[Lacan]] begins -- in 1953 -- to analyze in detail the function of [[speech]] in [[psychoanalysis]].
[[Lacan]] emphasizes that [[speech]] is essentially an [[intersubjective]] process.
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"The allocution of the [[subject]] entails an allocutor" and therefore "the locutor is constituted in it as [[intersubjectivity]]."<ref>{{E}} p.49</ref>
The term "[[intersubjectivity]]" thus possesses, at this point in [[Lacan]]'s work, a positive value, since it draws attention to the importance of [[language]] in [[psychoanalysis]] and emphasizes the fact that the [[unconscious]] is "transindividual."
[[Psychoanalysis]] is thus to be conceived in [[intersubjective]] rather than intrasubjective terms.
It is now associated, not with [[speech]] as such, but with the notions of reciprocity and symmetry that characterize the [[dual relationship]];<ref>{{S8}} p.20</ref> that is, with the [[imaginary]] rather than with the [[symbolic]].
[[Psychoanalysis]] is no longer to be conceived of in terms of [[intersubjectivity]].<ref>{{S8}} p.20</ref>
Indeed, the experience of [[transference]] is precisely what undermines the notion of [[intersubjectivity]].<ref>Lacan. {{L}} 1967</ref>
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