Well, its only a cover, but here is Ryan Adams song “Words.” Watch it, don’t watch it, the point is the chorus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVK8em5cHyw
“Don’t worry up your mind, people are sick and mean sometimes. They’re only words”
Ignoring, for a moment, Ryan Adam’s utterly vacuous writing, I can only imagine Lacan is rejoicing. Because it is only a system of signification, a semiotic world. By it I mean of course myself, and you, and the space between us and everything else. And I think that Lacan should have been a physicist: he has created a perpetual motion machine. The desire to use language creates its own system, which is a participant in (and creator of) signification, and so the whole thing fuels itself. We want symbol, so we use symbol and create symbol. Begin the system anywhere you like. They are only words.
I have, however, a lingering question. I must use signification to communicate the interrogatory symbol, and I beg my readers forgiveness for the irony. No self-contained system can energize itself. If it could, it would be necessary that any isolated part account for itself, and a symbol cannot self-generated and self-reference. That being the case, I wonder what is outside Lacan’s system. That is, what thing outside the system of signification motivates the structure.
Or, is it phallus ex nihilo?
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