Schiller can only express happiness through the language of completeness.

Evidence

The paradox of the historical Schiller is precisely that in order to arrive at a statement about happiness (about which nothing can be said in his terminology), the argument must be couched in the language of completeness and of the mental functions, which permit an interplay of opposing terms. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 183

Categorization

• QUESTION: Jameson’s point that some experiences are unsayable in certain terminologies — that a whole register (happiness) must be translated into another (completeness) — invites the question of what contemporary theoretical language silently underwrites our own claims about the good life.
• XREF: This is a textbook instance of what Jameson elsewhere calls the ‘strategic’ translation between conceptual codes — and directly prefigures his later idea in The Political Unconscious about narrative as the socially symbolic act.