Forgetting All the Way to the End

From the Freudian point of view man is the subject captured and tortured by language. Utilitarian language keeps us safe inside a contract or else invoices us with a hygienic deliberateness. Make art from the artefact of Mari's last wishes. From Jacques Lacan we know that psychosis is also wordy: "[T]he discursive products characteristics of the register of paranoia usually blossom into literary productions, in the sense of which literary simply means sheets of paper covered with writing" {Psychosis 77). [...]Lacan finds Joyce sane most notably because his unanalysable, hard-wired symptom (his sinthome) is a repetition compulsion that revolves around purposeful word play, around poking at the regulatory stasis of language until it erupts into a new sort of symbolism.