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At the Rome Congress of Romance Language Psychoanalysts, on the [[{{Y}}|26th of September, 1953]], [[Lacan]] delivered a paper entitled "[[Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse]]" ("[[The function and field of speech and language in psychoanalysis]]").<ref>"[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis|Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse]]." ''[[Écrits]]''. Paris: Seuil, 1966: 237-322 ["[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis]]." Trans. [[Alan Sheridan]]. ''[[Écrits: A Selection]]''. London: Tavistock, 1977; New York: W.W. Nortion & Co., 1977: 30-113].
</ref> This paper, often referred to as the [[Rome Discourse]] marked [[Lacan]]'s break with the analytic establishment and the [[formation]] of his own [[school]] of [[psychoanalytic theory|psychoanalytic thought]]. Also in 1953, [[Lacan]] and a group of colleagues left the '''''[[Société psychanalytique de Paris]]''''' ([[SPP]]) to form the '''''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]''''' ([[SFP]]). The [[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis|Rome Discourse]] came to be seen as the founding document of the [[SFP]], and of a new direction in [[psychoanalysis]].
==Language==
The paper, the founding statement of Lacanian theory, defines [[psychoanalysis]] as a practice of [[speech]] and a theory of the [[speech|speaking]] [[subject]]. [[Psychoanalysis]], he asserts, is distinguished from other disciplines in that the [[analyst]] works on the [[subject]]'s [[speech]]. He points out that [[Freud]] often referred to [[language]], particularly when he was focusing on the [[unconscious]]. After all, [[language]] is the "[[talking cure]]".
===Three Orders===
The theory of the three interacting orders, the [[Symbolic]], the [[Imaginary ]] and the [[Real]], first appears in detail in this paper. These orders can be conceived as different planes of existence which, though interconnected, are independent realities, each [[order ]] being concerned with different functions.
==Summary==
This paper sets out [[Lacan]]'s major concerns for the following decade:
