Rothenberg’s subject of excess is about EXCESS, “We are accustomed to hearing a great deal about the “subject of lack” in contemporary theory, yet the argument I have been exploring suggests that the subject of lack should be understood as a subject of excess, that is, as a subject to which excess ineradicably adheres.
The fact that one has become meaningful to others —i.e. been registered in the Symbolic— does not mean that one actually knows what one means to others (43).
You have only two choices: either subjectivity with loss of immediacy, or non-subjecthood. Again, the loss of immediacy does not result in a lack: it generates an excess, an excess of meaningfulness that is not in the control of the subject (44).