Kid A In Alphabet Land/Name
Name
Kid A In Alphabet Land Names the Name!
The name anchors the subject within language, lineage, and social order. To be named is to be counted, addressed, and recognized within a symbolic network that precedes the individual.
In psychoanalytic theory, naming is never neutral. A name carries expectations, histories, and positions that shape how the subject is seen and how it comes to see itself.
For Lacan, the act of naming situates desire within the symbolic order. It fixes identity while simultaneously limiting it, binding the subject to a place in discourse that cannot be freely chosen.
Within Kid A In Alphabet Land, the Name grants Kid A a position. Yet with that position comes constraint: to be named is also to be caught in what language demands.