Have to say I enjoyed reading the discussion on the I word from Doug,
Paul and Dom (and sorry I may have left someone out without meaning to.)
Something I have been playing around with but not sure what I am doing.
Paul might know better then me but didn't Lacan say something like even
when the I is not used, there can be still an implied I operating in the
text? So simply doing away with not saying I means you still say I
without actually saying I in the sense that the I is implied as first
person, or whatever?
On, I is another, as Rimbaud did say; I have a blurred memory of Deleuze
discussing this in his seminars on Kant and maybe in _Essays clinical
and critical_ about Rimbaud being Kantian in this usage. If there is
interest I may dig it up and post the quote? An interesting comment as
it gave me another reading of the Drunken Boat poem, too. I am also
reading a PhD philosophy thesis on transitive production such as Freud's
theory of the ego being transitivly produced from the primary id. Then I
think of Ferlingetti's fourth person singular. A sort of cracked I.
Also, Dom's comments about the blurring of the fictional and supposedly
non-fictional confession.... this question of autobiography and supposed
truth in biography to which I am tempted to respond with a question: why
can't we make up our own stories, our fables of our lives?
Anyway, right now I feel too blurred to read any more philosophy and
can't get into a new novel and can't read poetry. But I did enjoy the
cat poems posted, very much. That made me feel much happier, many thanks.
best wishes
Chris Jones.
PS... I have changed mail programs. Evolution was simply too buggy with
seg faults and time outs but I don't know if this will be plain text, so
sorry if it turns out to be rich text format ot html. I have specified
plain text.
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