Lacan insists on one more point: the close correlation between truth and the function of language. For Heidegger, this correlation is based upon his interpretation of the meaning of lógos for the Greeks, as we have seen, for example in the work of Heraclitus (1975, 59-78). Although lógos from early on was associated with speech, the original sense of it for Heraclitus, Heidegger claims, came from legein, meaning "to gather" (as one gathers wood), or "to bring together" into some kind of unity, that thereby becomes manifest as what it is. Like phýsis, lógos was from the beginning associated with the coming to pass of alétheia, the unconcealment of everything that is. The task of human beings would be to collaborate with the process by letting beings be seen as what they are. Eventually, it became possible to think of this gathering process (the coming-to-pass of truth) as originary language and of the vocation of human beings as bringing it to expression in words. At any rate, the vocation of human beings as such would be to bring to articulation the language of lógos as process of alétheia, a task for which the poets serve as models. Psychoanalytically speaking, then, alétheia comes to pass through the lógos that functions in the very speaking through which "full" speech comes about. It is in this sense that "truth is grounded in the fact that it speaks and it has no other means of [being grounded]".

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