The GRAPH OF DESIRE AS A THEORY OF LANGUAGE

Intentionality and speech acts

Abstract

We seek to answer, in this work, what happens when the human animal comes into contact with a language. To that end, we sought this answer from authors from philosophy and psychoanalysis, especially Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Lacan. The answer is founded in Jaques Lacan's theory of language: because it is spoken and to respond to the Other's appeal, the animal part of the human is eliminated, leaving access to it through the imaginary, as identification. Thus, the act of communicating leads to the constitution of identity through the question: ’who and what am I to the Other and to me?’. Identity and fantasy are aspects of the answer to these questions, articulating identity and thing. Within this articulation and subjection, through questioning, subjectivity is formed as an effect. Finally, we show the desire graph as a detailed explanation of these processes.