On account of its signifying too much

Susan Shaw Sailer echoes this reading of the Wake and its letter(s) as an unstable, overflowing saturation of signification in her book, On the Void of to Be: Incoherence and Trope in Finnegans Wake. Sailer, however, does not concur with the notion that this chronic overdetermination of meaning in the Wake and its letter(s) stems from a lack per se. Rather, she argues that it arises "through the subjectless production of their achievement, the endless production of signification via the endless knots of linked and connected signifiers (202). It is interesting to note, too, in regard to the present study, that Sailer brings a reading of Poe's "Purloined Letter" to bear on her argument -- Derrida's, though, not Lacan's.