Abstract

Psychoanalysis is not humanism, Jacques Lacan reminds us: as the pursuit of writing in speech, psychoanalysis is defined by graphocentrism. Psychoanalytic writing is performed by the agency of the letter, “the material medium that concrete discourse borrows from language.” It implies that the not-so-human nature of the speaking subject is taken by psychoanalysis rather seriously: not only posthumanism of the speaking being is fully acknowledged, it is conceived as a deeply human vulnerability. Not only was this vulnerability overlooked, it was strategically repressed by the humanist myth as a defence against the real.