Voice and excess: speculative, ethical-political and educational approaches to orality

Abstract

This article explores an unattended component in the field of language philosophy, namely: the voice. Through the theoretical apparatus of representatives of the so-called Slovenian psychoanalysis, especially Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar, it is intended to show that the voice is a communication component that resists its registration within the significant chain and on the contrary it is presented as a limit and, at the same time, an excess in meaning, which opens possibilities to think about the way in which the integration of the subjects occurs in the existing social order. In this way, the voice contains in its core a component that shows the antagonistic gap of the social, which would allow renegotiating the senses that order the social. The work constitutes a dialectical philosophical reflection on the phenomenon of the voice, since it explores speculative, ethical, political and educational aspects concerning this phenomenon, which aims to contribute to an understanding of orality over its instrumental aspects in the communication. That is, instead of understanding the voice as a secondary phenomenon in communication aimed at serving as a means to transmit a message, the voice appears as that which enables, interrupts and exceeds the communicative intentions of the subjects participating in the communicative dialogue. Finally, the article uses examples taken from the contemporary educational context, in which the way in which the voice bursts into education as an element of an eminently political nature is shown.