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Friday, 18 December 2015
A situation is named; this act of naming causes certain on-going phenomena to become more salient and their new prominence confirms the tacit implications of the name. The situation is thus further delineated. While the act of naming is remembered this works to keep the status of the named situation hypothetical or playful. The way that led in is clear and the way in is also the way out. However the more developed the structure becomes the more objective it becomes, and the name starts to take on the quality of something overheard, spoken in a decisive but more or less sympathetic judgement, by an utterly alien voice. The way in no longer seems so clear. He followed it all right, but maybe he had no choice, and so it certainly doesn't follow that the way out is still the same as the way in. What he thought was play was just the veil over an absence of will. Now the question of how to find the way out arises seriously for the first time. He needs to call on others with objective knowledge to guide his steps. He submits to becoming their object, to being translated into their idiom. This new situation is discovered to contain opportunities for gratification of wishes that were not previously suspected, but which are at least as original as the situation he started from. These entirely distract him. Like a child he weaves his identity in and out of splitting and othering.
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