Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:40:44 +0000
Subject: Re: new .sig


>   I always said I don't have a .sig for the same reason I don't have
> tattoos. I've got one of those diffuse postmodern selves Sherry Turkle
> writes about. The tattoo or .sig which might seem to be really me at one
> momemt can lose all resonance in the next as my mood/mode shifts in the
> coyote-like way typical of me.  I don't think I'll ever psychologically
> shape shift out from under this one.
>   The first denial, the Great Existential Denial which makes all smaller,
> more local denials possible, is the denial of all such psychical energies
> as do not get coded as representation in the ego. The alterity of the
> other evokes the threat of extinction to the extent that this very
> alterity speaks to that which is in us more than we are in ourselves. The
> alterity of the other represents by proxy the lack in us. This lack is the
> distance or differance between this symptom which we think we are and the
> un-nameable something which has this symptom. This lack and our reponse to
> its representation by proxy in the other is the source of all
> ideologically based violence. Striking out at the other is denying at the
> top of our lungs what we are but can not know.
> 
> "The ego is structured exactly like a symptom. At the heart of the
> subject, it is only a privileged symptom, the human symptom par
> excellence, the mental illiness of man."  Jacques Lacan


That was subblime.  Thankyou for that.  You have confirmed how it is
that i/you *ought* to feel tonight. I know I *ought* to sign here, but
the Law prohibits it from happening just *now*. 

WMc 
You see I did it.  
But it happened two phrases ago. That is if you don't include the  last
one I wrote - that would make it three.
Looks can be deceptive.