This article discusses the place of the voice in the notion of chiffonnage -which Lacan sketches in Seminar 24 - as a direction of healing or, more precisely, an intervention towards the sinthome. Chiffonnage is understood as a clinical intervention using the voice, i.e., an intervention that operates on phonation, on the voice that is, in the body, an actual instinct of the fact that there is a saying. The voice here lies beyond the wall of the word, it requires breaking the wall, chiffonner the word to make a different use of it than the original one. This operation requires twisting the voice to invent a new signifier free of any meaning, as opposed to the actual one.
Key words:
Chiffonnage; sinthome; voice; wall