“From the message to the image: how to come out of the enigma"

At the beginning - says Laplanche - there is a riddle: an enigma in a double sense. The sender of the enigmatic message does not know that he has issued a message, the receiver of the message does not know that he has received a message. The human mind is built around this enigmatic message. Psychoanalysis is an attempt to solve this puzzle. But the solution of a riddle cannot be a sign, because each sign, in turn, must be interpreted. And so on ad infinitum. The solution of the riddle cannot be another puzzle. What we need is to find a different logic from that of the enigma and language. In this paper, I propose to consider the aesthetic experience as the only way out of the language. Above the riddle, there is the image.