THE TACITURNE SUBJECT IN THE LIGHT OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS Marilene Aparecida Lemos, Valdete de Lima Ank Morais

Abstract

The objective of this study is to reflect on the notion of subject in a specific foreign language teaching-learning situation, which Camblong (2004) calls “threshold”. Based on this author’s considerations, we verified the effects of this “threshold” scene on the teaching practice of the Spanish language, in the space of a public school in São Paulo. In this way, this work revisits the “taciturn subject”, a concept that we arrived at from Camblong (2004) and Bakhtin’s (2003) considerations about taciturnity; and presents a study on the constitution of the subject in the context of linguistics, from the theoretical perspective of discourse analysis and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Thus, the first part of the work consists of the presentation of the scene that motivated the studies on the “taciturn subject” and that served as the driving force behind Lemos’ (2008) master’s dissertation; and the second part shows some excerpts on the existence of the unconscious, estrangement and silence from Freud, Lacan and Bakhtin.