LE FLAMENCO, LES NOCES DE SANG ENTRE R´EEL ET CULTURE

Abstract

Flamenco makes the voice dance on the tightrope of solitude, an equilibrist dance on the wings of desire and death. Because the voice animates the body, to the point of trance, until the risk of an abysmal encounter with "mutilated silence" as Garcia Lorca names it: voice reduced to questioning the loss that is inscribed on it. It is in the crossroads of ethnomusicology and psychoanalytic anthropology that the voices of Flamenco are summoned here, for what they embody, in an excruciating way, the blood marriage between Real and Culture, between the real of the body, the cultural laws and their transgressions. The lalias and the duende, coming from the entrails of the body, speak of this lost jouissance of an origin of language, between speech and silence; this is what animates the speech of the faltering analysand who takes the risk in the arena of the significant.