Murder is misdirected suicide, to destroy part of one-self; murder is suicide with misdirected identity. And suicide is also a case of mistaken identity, an attack on the (introjected) other.
Identification, introjection, incorporation is eating. The oldest and truest language is that of the mouth: the oral basis of the ego. Even in seeing there is an active process of introjection: perception is a parataking of what is perceived (Fenichel); we become what we behold (Blake).
Cf. Isaacs, "The Nature and Function of Phantasy," 104-106, 109. Fenichel, "Scoptophilic Instinct and Identification," 379-381. Rohiem, Magic and Schizophrenia, 224-225. Freud, Negation," 183.
Transubstantiantion - the whole trouble with symbolism. Metaphor is really metamorphosis; and the primal form of the sentence is Tat tvam assi, Thou art That; or, of bread and wine, hocest corpus meum, this is my body.
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I left you an award on my blog.
Btw, did you know that I can't get your blog feed to work through my Google reader? I've tried several times and I keep getting error messages. Are you set up funny?
By the way, no I didn't know that. Error messages you say? I thought that was correct. Am I set up funny? How many ways would you like me to answer that? Nice straight line, you do allow me some huge huge grins. I'll ask Barney Google what the fuck is up.
An award? I'll get you my pretty and your little owl too. For my heart is black, you see. But I'm not going to look either, so just trust me.
I apparently broke something. It isn't just your place, I tried others on typepad and the same thing. Even loaded another web browser, even signed up for another typepad pass. Maybe I'll trip over something someday and it will fix it. Or maybe the Grand kid will get his butt up this way sometime and fix Grandpa.
Ouch.
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