STUDIA UBB. PHILOSOPHIA, Vol. 59 (2014), 3, pp. 53-63 (RECOMMENDED CITATION) SYMBOLIC INSTITUTION OF LANGUAGE IN SPEECH ON THE GROUNDS OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL FREEDOM. AN INQUIRE INTO NON SYMBOLIC PHENOMENOLOGY OF MARC RICHIR CRISTIAN BODEA 1 ABSTRACT. Once developed, philosophy has known not long ago a linguistic turn, and since then, we could almost inevitably say it reached a theological turn, only to know now a new important turning point throughout its history. We speak of a turning point which we dare to call psychoanalytical, already present in the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. As a subtle continuation of the latter, the French phenomenologist Marc Richir will take advantage of the presence of psychoanalysis in the history of knowledge, first to make a distinction between symbol and phenomenon, in order to continue researching beyond the created human, the „pre-human”. In order to achieve this, a difference between speech and language, already recognized by psychoanalysis, distinguishes itself, as it is a difference that will eventually lead to the mystery of creation (and) of mankind. Keywords: symbolical institution, non symbolic phenomenology, phenomenological freedom. Introduction The title we’ve proposed makes sense only in the ample context of Marc Richir’s phenomenology. Understanding the, quite confusing for many of us, difference between speech and language is absolutely necessary in this context where psychoanalysis finds fertile ground. It is a reported difference, however, first by Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, and subsequently recognized in various forms, by some psychoanalysts. Psychoanalysis however, occupies a prime place in this issue of the symbolic institution of speech in language, through the fact that it provides the appropriate framework for a better understanding of what constitutes the issued 1 Doctoral candidate at the Doctoral School in Philosophy, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeş- Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. E-mail: cristibodea@yahoo.com