Reading L’Étourdit: First Turn : Chapter 1. Meaning – Relationship and Sense

(1) ‘That one might be saying remains forgotten behind the said in what is understood’. 2) ‘This statement which appears to be assertive since it is produced in a universal form, is in fact modal, existential as such: as is testified by the subjunctive by which its subject is modulated.’ (5d; 449) These two sentences or these two morsels plunge us into double presentation, into the representation of one (1) for and in the other (2) and this re-presentation will lead us to the barred subject and to the o-object.…