The most characteristic lacanian program of reading psychoanalysis - the one which claims a return to Freud - is paradigmatically announced in 1953 in the Rome Discourse. In this capital conference, psychoanalysis is submitted to a "translation" based on very specific instruments, mainly those which come from Kojève's and Heidegger's philosophies and from Lévi-Strauss's anthropology. With an internal analysis of this text, we will try to follow some components of this program - specially those related to the opposition empty speech/full speech, the intersubjectivity and the symbolic order - with the purpose of promoting an approaching to its meaning.
epistemology of psychoanalysis; Lacanian psychoanalysis; language; speech