Rebecca:
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... the drive to own being, rather than to be being, if that makes sense
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Yes. That makes abundant good sense. The tricky bit (for me) is to frame a
coherent response.
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So for all the perhaps too much emphasis upon consciousness or un- as a
measure of responsibility, there's this other emphasis to make the
unconscious entirely conscious. And I'm not sure they're not two reflections
of the same face...
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Yes. There are clearly situations in which two interlocutors will fall out
over some (un)intended slight. For the evasive offender, being 'unaware' of
some implication or having done something 'by accident' is a way of
practising deceit. On the other hand, to accuse someone can as easily be a
way of colonising the other, of making a truth claim about knowledge of
his/her personality, motivation and so forth which s/he, by definition,
cannot make.
What you call 'to be being' may be the same as what I would mean in saying
that as writers we need to use evasion _unselfishly_ and as readers we must
resist the temptation to impose our readings or to regard ourselves as free
from the constraints of what we read.
Pretentious to the last, I suspect!
CW
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