...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.