The Poetics of Pure Signifier: Dhvani Theory and Jacques Lacan’s Philosophy of Language Dr. R. B. Sharma Associate Professor Dept. of English & MEL University of Lucknow, Lucknow. Twentieth century studies on the nature and function of language have challenged the existing paradigms of our knowledge systems. The language-nature of the episteme has affected the nature and validity of knowledge, and the boundaries of disciplines like philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, psychology, anthropology and many others have crumbled down. The ontology of the Word constitutes the ontology of truth, Being, God, essence, subject, text, work and others. In the deliberations on the nature of the Word, the Vedic philosophy of language and Sanskrit literary theories have helped the scholars to reconfigure the recent literary and philosophical insights with the ancient systems of knowledge, to create the synergies of knowledge that help in reformulating the methodologies of hermeneutics. The interaction between the ancient Indian philosophical insights and the contemporary conceptualizations on language has created the possibilities of rediscovering the unrealized potentialities of both. In this paper I have attempted to suggest the possibility of the poetics of Pure Signifier by putting together the implications of dhvani theory and Lacan’s philosophy of language. Jacques Lacan invokes dhvani theory to illustrate his philosophy of language and self. Lacan attempted various theoretical models to create a comprehensive philosophy of language. All of these constitute one inseparable whole, a single monadic structure. The dhvani theory approximates not just one or two models of Lacan’s philosophy of language, but the whole oeuvre that Lacan created to conceive language and human subjectivity. Lacan’s philosophy of language and the dhvani theory interanimate each other.