Molloy, Moran, and my new friend, Lacan

Ok, so I know this is a bit of cross-pollination of classes on my part, but bear with me. Saurou's previous post about Molloy and Moran possibly being one and the same person got the hamster-wheels in my brain spinning around. If Moran is, in fact, an earlier version of Molloy, who slowly, as part 2 progresses, becomes Molloy (as exemplified in the decomposition of his leg, the acquisition of a bicycle, the slow descent into hobo-ness, and the acknowledgment that he doesn't know as much as he thought ["Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining." (p.241)], which then loops around to the beginning of part 1, in which Molloy is writing about something he doesn't know), then I can see a pattern of regression back to Lacan's mirror stage. The character develops backwards, slowly un-learning meaning. Moran is steeped in language - he is a greater lack than Molloy: he seeks reaffirmation of what he is through the studying of those unlike him. The ways in which we, as readers, find out what Moran is like is, most often, through the judgment and belittlement of others. He is constantly saying things like "If there is one thing I hate..." using other people's shortcomings to define for us what he is not. This is characteristic of the fall one goes through when one enters language. Molloy, while displaying many of these characteristics (it would be impossible not to - he may be moving backwards to "before the fall" but he is still stuck in language), doesn't seem so much a lack as Moran does. Molloy doesn't know anything enough to be able to define himself one way or the other, and because of this, he feels a little more whole. The development of the character is a backwards one - it just doesn't seem it at first, because of the way in which the novel is set up. Since we are introduced to Molloy first, Beckett manages to deconstruct characterization is multiple ways, from how we are introduced, the chronology and timeline of the character's life, to the fact that the character's chronology itself is a backwards development.

I sure hope that wasn't too far-fetched.