The Cut That Introduces the Child Into Language

The cut that introduces the child into language affords the child now with an opportunity to long for something it never previously experienced as lost. Like a lizard on a rock, pre-linguistic bio-animality doesn't know anything. Knowledge is an effect of signification. So also is consciousness, certainly self-consciousness. What else is being by yourself but a symbolic enterprise? I told you that's over up to and then I backed up into need and demand. All right, I want to take a first pass at desire. The first definition of desire I want to provide you with is a mathematical definition. Desire equals demand minus need. And you can just straight up write it