Speech failures and evasions reveal more than moments of clear articulacy.

Evidence

His hilarious takedown of Don King — a “wretched slimy reptilian motherfucker” — is as swift and savage as any of his combinations in the ring. Elsewhere, the words elude him, or he evades them. Yet, exactly as psychoanalysis taught us to expect, the ellipses, the sentences that lead nowhere and the “wrong” choice of word tell us even more than the moments of transparent lucidity. The unconscious speaks, and James Toback demonstrates an extraordinary facility for hearing and recording it. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 590

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Understanding speech requires projecting oneself toward the speaker’s possible ends. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1216; Representations reveal more by failing than by succeeding — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 471

Broader Connections

• Representations reveal more by failing than by succeeding #corroborates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 471
• Understanding speech requires projecting oneself toward the speaker’s possible ends. #expands (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1216