"What is this scream? Who will hear it, this scream that we do not hear? ...

...here the scream literally seems to provoke the silence and in abolishing itself in it, it is tangible that it causes it. It gives rise to it, it allows it to hold its note, it is the 

scream which sustains it and not the silence the scream, the scream in a way makes the silence curl up in the very impasse from which it springs, in order that the silence may escape from it. But it has already happened when we see Munch's image. The scream is traversed by the space of the silence without dwelling in it; they are not linked either by being together or by succeeding one another,the 

scream creates the abyss into which silence rushes."  

-- Lacan on Edvard Munch's The Scream (Der Schrei Der Natur)

Woyzeck, Werner Herzog (1979)