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=====Linguistic Definition====="[[Metalanguage]]" is the technical term in [[linguistics]] for any form of [[language]] which is used to describe or analyze the properties of another [[language]].
=====Roman Jakobson=====[[Roman Jakobson]] includes the metalingual function in his list of the functions of [[language]].<ref>[[Roman Jakobson|Jakobson, Roman]]. (1960) "Linguistics and poetics," in ''Selected Writings'', vol. II, ''Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry'', The Hague:Mouton, 1981, p.25</ref>
[[Lacan]]'s first reference to [[metalanguage]] comes in 1956, when he echoes [[Jakobson]]'s view on the metalingual function of all [[language]]:
<blockquote>"All [[language]] implies a [[metalanguage]], its already a [[metalanguage]] of its own register."<ref>{{S3}} p. 226</ref></blockquote>
A few years later, in 1960, he says precisely the opposite, arguing that "no [[metalanguage]] can be spoken."<ref>{{E}} p.311</ref>
This is reminiscent of Heidegger's views on the impossibility of exiting "the house of language."
If the Otheer is the guarantee of the coherence of the subject's discourse, then the falsity of this guarantee is revealed by the fact that the guarantor himself lacks such a guarantee.
In a clinical context, this means that there is no metalanguage of the transference, no point outside the transference from which it could be finally interpreted and "liquidated."
==Psychoanalytic Treatment==
In a [[clinical]] context, this means that there is no [[metalanguage]] of the [[transference]], no point [[outside]] the [[transference]] from which it could be finally [[interpreted]] and 'liquidated'.
==See Also==
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[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
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[[Category:PoststructuralismLanguage]]
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