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The introduction is devoted to situating the text as lying midway "''between writing and speech''".
<Blockquote>Thus, if the idea is that “Instance of the Letter” is as much like a talk as it is like a paper, the talk itself was more like the public reading of a written paper than most of Lacan's other talks: The talk would seem to have been mostly written out in advance.<ref>Fink, Bruce. ''Lacan to the Letter: Reading Ecrits Closely''. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. p. 64</ref></blockquote>
