In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of Joan Copjec’s important and influential text, Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists, this essay explores how the psychoanalytic conceptualization of desire operates musically as much as linguistically. If the unconsciousis structured like a language, then music is structured like a desire for a language to be already spoken for. Franz Schubert’s evocative lieder literally speak about music’s capacity to capture and tarry with desire as a force always to be reckoned with.V počastitev tridesete obletnice izida pomembne in vplivne knjige Joan Copjec Read My Desire: Lacan Against Historicists članek raziskuje, kako želja deluje v glasbi in jeziku. Če je nezavedno strukturirano kot govorica, potem je glasba strukturirana kot želja po govorici, ki je že bila izgovorjena. Schubertov evokativen samospev dobesedno govori o sposobnosti glasbe, da zajame in rokuje z željo kot silo, s katero je treba vedno obračunati
