fort - da: an appropriation
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:00:44 -0500
craig king wrote:
> without those processes to conceptualise it all i wouldn't have a reality at
> all, just 'objects and things' without meaning or any kind of order.
My point is that you wouldn't be able even to distinguish objects and
things unless you had already distinguished between yourself and
everyting that was not yourself (beyond that, you'd probably have
distinguished between some of the various things that were not
yourself, too). All objects have meaning once you recognize them. At
the very, very least, they mean "not me." By distinguishing
something, you assign it a meaning--a significance--relative to all
the things you distinguish it from. This is a linguistic activity.
It's the only activity by which we make meaning. And it saturates the
unconscious, which is indeed one of its first products.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu