...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.
Jacques LacanWhat could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
Jacques LacanFor the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
Jacques Lacan