hiya Ruth,
>yes-yes where's the play-its a bit difficult to express(!) especially as i
>have a slight political conflict going on within my (selves) about it. on
>the one hand, i find readings of D that don't deal with the issue of
>maternal disavowal impoverished-what i would want to assert-not as
>universal
>truth but as fairly widespread sedimentation of a habitual false probelm is
>that oedipal machines do fabricate psychic interiorities which b) are
>predicated on verticality b)render a kind of maternal imperceptible,
>fragmented scattered and so on. hence the startegic importance of
>becoming-woman- so far -so ordinary-i think breaking through these kinds of
>local habit structure does, initially, entail the kinds of encounter you
>describe in so far as a retrograde regressive kind of mnemomnic mapping
>needs to be opened out for most of already triangulated-i don't think it is
>feasible-or at least i find it politically stupid- to suggest this kind of
>operation without consideration of the kinds of maternal disavowals which
>bind the machine. i.e there is nothing more aggravating than 'profound
>commentary ' on becoming-minor, molecular et al which is not willing to
>first engage with the discomfort of becoming-woman ( as difficult for women
>as men i would stress) it would be wrong to assume that everyone has been
>triangulated, yet it is also foolish not to account startegically for a
>majoritarian praxis most often named 'daddy'.
I think this is what i've been saying, the importance of becoming-woman
first, before even trying to talk 'profoundly' about all the other
becomings...or else, yes, very aggravating and noisy!
the biggest problem i find in the infant-mother thing is D's jeckell and
hyde as parnet says, the break between LoS and AO, D's psychoanalytic
commentary, you know? in AO the pre-oedipal stuff is all about machines and
such, rather simplistic compared to in LoS with the details about
destructive drives and all that. a preliminary difficulty would be working
out this gap before getting into becoming-W convos.
but i think, for one thing, becoming-W is a very common becoming (love);
even the most phallic love has a becoming-woman 'beneath' the molarity.
also important, the faciality of the whole thing, D&G say that the mirror
stage should be read while keeping the faciality machine in mind. the gaze
as a partial object transformed into...what?
that's all i have to say for now
:) bobo
>in this sense Araidne's substantial ears serve a valuable but limited
>purpose in insisting that women's composites become visible or
>re-subjectivised. as a sonorous set of affects its quite easy to work 's an
>account of pre-embryonic noise, gesture etc into D's alimentary pre-oedipal
>readings. yet to stay with natality as molar sign also means an acceptance
>of a paranoic, nostalgic and despotic kind of temporality as trade off for
>poltical recognition. for Irigaray, especially, death is simply a falling
>away of angelic flesh yet her time for love between does not really do much
>than slightly extend the serial monotony of the 'nuclear family' getting
>to
>some kind of way of thinking about 'daughters of the future'-(see
>thirteenth
>series LOS) is very much a question of being able to leave this first
>immemorial home-not achieved through denial so some point in re-membering
>the maternal to leave as well transvaluing its mnemonomic. the idea of
>thinking about substance re the incorporeal time of the Aion is absurd-so,
>arguably, room for some adjustment of Irigaray's immanent femnine divine.
>by
>definition the singularities of birth must be included in the dice throw
>that affirms all throws- yet castration effects, false problem as they
>are-seem to need a separate kind of treatment.
>
>cutting out Ariadne's ears is my way of alluding to the
>de-substantialisation of new maternal idols without ignoring the way
>natality has been devalued historically.
>
>ciao
>
>Ruth.C
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