Ties in Writing

Abstract

The “most material reality of writing,” its expressive image, has taken us from the inclined figure of the writer to the division of subject and to its emergence in the human landscape of the sign that muffles the cry. From the shaped world as the articulated page for reading in terms of its relationships, its “blank spaces” or its vacuums, to the eccentricity of writing with respect to what is written and to the abyss that separates language from what is real. An aperture where the voice, tied to desire, generates the force of writing. Upon pushing for the unobtainable goal of the word that names it, the voice shares the “spacing” that characterizes writing according to Derrida. We bring its considerations on spacing into question and into contact with those of psychoanalysis concerning voice. And we confront both with the “void” and “absence” that, according to Blanchot, Joubent finds at the “very bottom of the most material realities.”