Who Chose this Face for Me? Some Commodius Vicuses of Recirculation in Lacan and Joyce

James Joyce opens Finnegans Wake with a spectacle ''.. .riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs"[1] Reference books explain that Commodus was a decadent Roman Emperor; that Vico, is variously understood as a road on the edge of Dublin Bay and as the philosopher of the fourfold corso-recorso, an idea of history that invokes the word 'recirculation , encouraging Joyce to create a book without beginning or end[2].…