Yesterday at brunch it was suggested to me that the forward slash in my </3 t-shirt design (recently mentioned in Brooklyn Based and CRAFT Magazine's blog, yaaayy!) could be replaced by the symbol of Lacan's split subject, which is written as .

For those of you who were not self-loathing enough to take many literary theory or psychology classes, the split subject is just Lacan's morose notion that the subject (which generally means humans in the context of how we think and talk and write about ourselves and others as individuals) is always divided and alienated from itself.

I guess this would be a heart that's been broken and/or validated by our alienation from ourselves. Or by Lacan, whose writing once drove me to throw the four-pound Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism against walls.