Abstract: What is this Nothing that underpins Beckett’s writing? This study proposes an articulation of Texts for Nothing with the reference to Democritus’ “Nothing is more real than nothing”, and Lacan’s elaboration on this question. Once this reference is isolated, it is crucial to consider that this form of Nothing should not be credited to the structural negativities that give a melancholy tone to existence. They enclose the positivity of the jouissance indexed by three terms: saying, writing, laughing. They are some of the Beckettian terms for the jouissance.
