We find ourselves before a unique book, written in multiple voices, and within a dialogue that at times takes us to the dream world of the most original images of childhood. Aroused from various meetings and discussions between Christopher Fynsk and Jean-François Lyotard, this book takes up the importance —within philosophy as well as in psychoanalysis— of the question about the figure of the infans, as the one who cannot speak. However, the question is not resolved so simply in a discussion, but in the opening of the question about the death of the infans. Taking up the works of Leclaire, Blanchot, Lacan and others, Fynsk places this book as an encounter between philosophy and psychoanalysis, the infant and the world, speech and silence, to question us, is it possible to speak of that which lacks language, of the death of the infans that is encapsulated in a deafening silence before ...read more
