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

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

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

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

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

The I is always in the field of the Other.