In this study ritual is approached as language, and the failing a constitutive element of the language. Since ideology materializes in the ritual practices, these fail, there are possible blockades at the ideological order. Based on the works by Louis Althusser, Michel Pêcheux finds in the author's theorizations on the ritual the failing as the very possibility of resistence, since subjecting, an unavoidable issue for the subject, at once free and responsible, does not occur without breaches in interpellation. Approximations and distancing between Pêcheux and Foucault are also required to think the ritual of language. Theoretical clarifications, dialogues and confrontations all mobilize the search for understanding the ritual in its subjection to failing in order, thus, to reflect on the TV news ritual, constituted by failure, within the domain of the Pêcheutian French Discourse Analysis. The thesis here supported is that at the very material point of encounter in which the effect is produced, it is unmade.
Ritual; Failure; Language; Discourse; Ideology