we cannot face to base it all on
sex--can we?
for even Freud used those puns
slips of the tongue (all verbal clues) to hold his views
therefore--a no-go on sex for know
what next?
let's take Freud as the man where id & ego
have come to stand apart,
but move for unconscious into the know (conscious)
that's how babies do indeed
we've all come with umbilical cords (Adam? Eve?)
we've all come to language now
still, how?

Lacan would say
in a Saussurian way
use the sign at play

the un-con-sci-ous-ness
like a runaway kite
dancing on running waves of wind
all tropes aboard--metaphor, metonomy
from initial signifier, say--"cow"
to utter
2% milk
condensed milk (condensation)
baby
crying
spilt milk
upset father
puts his foot down (displacement)
more crying
mom returns to child
"Da!"

nothing meant by something
all things "themselves?" because they weren't the others
but nothing meant by nothing

slippery son of a --
signifier
shifty little fella

unconsciousness
equals
image one plus
image two plus
image you-get-the-point

baby sees this too.
no need for language
every need is there--theirs
constant care, never all alone
that's why they made baby monitors, right?
(does that slow language down?)

but exit "Real" enter "Imaginary" (no baby monitors)
what if "mommy is fort?"
Ah, loss of presence/presents
demand something absent/truant
beginning of self-other
beginning of language

need to stabilize
make things mean (not angry)
mirror-stage, to see the self
misconceived "I" ("i" before "e" except after "c")
misrepresentation--like the early colonies
use language to talk about desires

hold up
what a sex, oops, sec
where is the unconsciousness?

no signified--no demand or desires--
the need--only signifiers
like hypertext
yahoo.com to baldmelon.com to
dotcomfordummies.com
strings--the kite
metaphor?
metonym?
stand in the name of--
language