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I appreciate that you've read Lacan, I know that's actually quite an accomplishment. But honestly, Lacan is not, nor was he ever-- a philosopher. Language is a construct, this point is undeniable, however what the postmodernists have to say about language is problematic because there is no universal basis to judge or understand these signifiers.
I think your problem could be cleared up in a much more friutful way by reading something actually in philosophy of language. I'd recomend reading things by Frege and/or Russell, Wittgenstien also has some interesting things to say about epistimology and language and language games.
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