Impossibility of 'Auto-Critique' (was Re: Irony, or, the Importance of Being Earnest)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Doug says to me:
>>a Letterman-like jibe against "suburban dorks"
>
>But Letterman himself *is* a suburban dork. Are you implying some
>auto-critique?

Not at all. There is no such thing as 'auto-critique.' The Self cannot
critique itself without falling into narcissism. Didn't Marx and Freud tell
you that?

Yoshie