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The Role of Signifiers in the Development of Language
In a certain sense, it's interesting you bring up the system of signifiers that is instituted in the name game of Genesis. With all the animals being brought out and Adam naming them, there is a whole boosting of power through the development of language. So there is a sense in which Adam becomes kind of like a little tyrant through the language they play together.