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

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

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

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.