ESSAI SUR LE MURMURE

Abstract

In the psychoanalytic conception of the voice as an object a and as a support for speech, the murmur can appear as enigmatic. Its vocal singularity questions the relationship between its particular sonority and the effect it can have on the subject who hears it. We murmur for ourselves but also in the presence of the other, who hears then this murmur. The murmur seems to connect the subject with the most intimate of its relationship to the world, the most archaic sound formerly heard. We intent to define it from its original potential found in the entry of the subject into language and, then, analyse how it realizes itself in the sophistication of speech in a random time of a specific elaboration. The observation of its therapeutic effect authorizes us to suppose a correlative jouissance of a particular action of the invoking drive linked to the murmur.