ABSTRACT
For author the boldest theorist on this topic is Maurice Blanchot, a French writer, philosopher referred to occasionally by Jacques Lacan, a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who throughout his very varied essays voices the suspicion that there is in the fabric of madness something akin to the literary act itself. One year later Lacan is talking about the sinthome, which has become literally people's only substance, as Zizek Slavoj a Slovenian psychoanalytic philosopher puts it, the only possible support of being, the only point that gives consistency to the subject. Of the symptom, the last avatar in this series, Zizek writes, symptom is the way subjects avoid madness, the way people choose something instead of nothing. It is not difficult to see that Lacan's lengthy expounding on the genesis of number in Crucial Problems in Psychoanalysis picked up on here is applicable to all human genesis and as such to the Book of Genesis itself.
