Fomulas create a way of writing that does not represent reality but rather operate as a writing that structures the real. Math can build bombs; physics can conceptualize a non-existent electron marked only by its effects.
We approach the real through the inter-dit —the between words. To gain access to this “between” one must work through the materiality of the signifier to the point of its failure. … Rather than telling the analysand what is really happening according to some sense of meaning, one presses where language fails and language will always fail at the level of its material enunciation. Interpretation is about different strategies with the inter-dit or how one operates at the interstice between language and what is other to it.