ABSTRACT
A symptom is a particular way in which the subject enjoys and suffers from the unconscious. If neurological amusia is a symptom, then it is one that experiences music as a pure jouissance. For J. Lacan, the symptom is not a call for interpretation, but a pure jouissance addressed to no one. Molly Bloom’s lilt confers knowledge for Dr Richard Bloom, and the self-knowledge conditioned by desire. The Pythagorean myth is, of course, referenced by the “acoustics” produced by the sound of Molly’s urine, defined and evoked by Bloom in mathematical terms. The question of noise-music’s site of enunciation is raised, given that Molly is located at the centre, or as the substance, of both rewritten myths. In Molly’s pot, music is neither subjective emotion nor Pythagorean acoustic design, but the resonant, erotic de-formation of form in a ceaseless flow of expenditure, a musical erotic pissss.
