Language is not a neutral tool with which to pick up and examine the world; it is partial, imperfect, and contingent. Language speaks us as much as we speak it; we have an imperfect grasp on the words we use, which in turn have an imperfect grasp on the world we speak about, and although our words can shape the world, they do so crudely, crushing or concealing complexity and nuance. Thinkers such as Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida paid attention to the difference and diversity that continually evade comprehension: to the slips of the tongue that betray our unconscious desires; the internal contradictions that expose the limits of our totalizing theories; the always present gap between our words and the world.
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Excerpt from: “A Theology of Failure: Žižek against Christian Innocence” by Marika Rose