Le malentendu, une indécidabilité nécessaire

Abstract

The slip of the tongue is considered by Lacan as a disruption of the significant chain where enunciation and utterance reveal the heterogeneousness of their joint. From this gap which create the misunderstanding, the interpretation tries to make the echo, the testimony, not in an attempt of reduction of the excess, but in a certain repetition giving way to indecidability. Indeed, this gap made effective – by what Lacan calls the paternal function – is necessary for a certain psychic balance and for social link, contrary to paranoia where the certainty leaves no place to aporia. Thus, a link between misunderstanding, gap and paternal transmission appears. In a certain closeness, levinassian ethics, but also derridian hospitality, try to show of the misunderstanding and indecidable functions, unpublished sense of the infinity understanding as this inflexible otherness in the Same. Misunderstanding, as non-relation, is not only inevitable, but its putting in function is necessary for sense and social link.