On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 08:42:22 +1000 Joanna Sheldon <cjs10 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> the bliss of ignorance.
I'd go along with that.
> I'm probably committing all kinds of sins, here, left and right, but
> (forging ahead, regardless) to say that the rupture between speaking and
> being can be fixed only at the expense of subjectivity may be a clever way
> of saying that to the extent that we are aware of ourselves we find it
> difficult to exist as our animal selves -- in other words that our busibody
> human brains often prevent us from living in the moment.
Yes.
> So have some mindbogglingly sensuous sex, or have a beer and a fag and watch
a football game -- if you're lucky you can combine all four -- and watch that
rupture dissolve, language or no language. Us artists like to throw paint at a
canvas with much the same effect, there are ways of getting past the mind/body
split without having to resort to Lacan.
And Lacan has a name for this: jouissance. And this isn't so much a mind and body split as it is a split mind/body (both the object and the subject are lacking).
ken