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Freud’s Theory 154–5). His threat to David is thus precisely his elusiveness to the signifier, and as David’s double, struggling for the same object of desire, he seems to embody what Lacan terms (in his later work) the “lamella,” that undead asexual thing that is at once object and nonobject, like das Ding , intimate to and alien to the subject. Thus David is “oppressed … with
psychotic as if . “[T]ongue-tied and blindfolded,” these “voluntary human sacrifices” seem more like the self-interned undead inmates of a global camp than members of a privileged leisure class. These walking “human sacrifices” devoid of human consciousness (sight and speech) are strikingly similar to what Schreber calls “fleeting-improvised-men” or