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Saturday, 14 July 2018
One thing that evolutionary psychology makes clear is that the unconscious is not structured like a language. The linkage between phenomenology and structure or biology could only have been made via the intermediary of language, which is why the 'linguistic turn' was such an important hold out for a phenomenology that sought to outlive the subject. But how can you think of the homomorphisms revealed by evolutionary psychology, the upstream patterns that form desire and motivations, that deform the space of the subject, without turning the linguistic key? Language is merely a tenant in the house of being; how can you define its lease without language? You can't think it through, you can only ask of language that it direct you to what is beyond it, what it is that you can know without being able to express. And in what sense do you know it? Not entirely with the mind, but with the body, with the gut, with blood, and something more besides. You know it, have always known it, but you need to put the aside the relation of signifier and signified that belongs with language, put aside poetics, and encounter a deeper duality in unity, unity in duality.
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