If I had to single out the first inflection of speech, the initial moment
in which the entire realisation of the truth of the subject was inflected
in its trajectory, the initial level on which the captation of the other
takes on its function, I would isolate it in a formula given me by someone
who is present here and whom I supervise. I was asking him -- _Where has
he got to, your subject, in relation to you this week?_ He then gave me
an expression which coincides exactly with what I have tried, in this
inflection, to pinpoint -- _He called on me to bear witness_. And indeed,
that really is one of the most elevated, although already deflected functions
of speech -- the call to bear witness.
Anika Lemaire Jacques Lacan (trans. David Macey) London: Routledge
& Kegan Paul, 1977 (orig. 1970), p. 50
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Greg Pryor
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