-- every tale is told within a frame, even a cautionary tale ...
So, yes, we can 'develop defenses' against the confusion of or the
substitution of what we call the imaginary for/with what we call the real
-- and we should, because as said before, it is the RELATION between them
that gives us the power of the sign -- but we cannot do so outside a
particularistic frame that gives its own cultural and historical spin to
what that Relation is, and so to what will help in the work of separation.
We can also ask, Do we do the work of separation for its own sake? or to
enable us, having split asunder, to newly reconnect, to creatively
re-confuse, so that the next time we separate and purify, the Frame itself
will have been moved on, the Relation be reconceived, the defenses
transformed in their point and method ... and if we are lucky, their
forebears still Remembered, to give us some wisdom from HISTORY.
jay.
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JAY L. LEMKE
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
JLLBC who-is-at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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