Lacan and the Symbolic as a Theory of Coherence

I like to think of Lacan and the symbolic as a theory of radical coherence. It's on the one hand obviously limiting because they are limits, but on the other hand it's a productive limit,. And if the space was unlimited, then you wouldn't have any room to maneuver. So it's an interesting kind of paradox that the very limitation on your space to maneuver is the thing that gives you any space to maneuver at all.