Incorporation is killing; to kill the other is to incorporate the other. Incorporation divides the other into food and shit; the part that is food becomes me, the other becomes shit.
"Killing is always inside the family (Oedipal). In the wisdom of primitive war, enemy blood is kindred blood; blood becomes kindred blood by being shed. Whatever is killed becomes the father. Head hunting. An enemy must be killed for a boy to grow up; a head must fall. The boy kills his father in the person of an enemy. And then the slain enemy becomes his guardian spirit; the enemy head (super-ego) presides over the house; love your enemy." Love's Body. 163.
There is no identity established except by killing. To kill the other is to divide the other into food and shit; this digestive process establishes the identity of the killer. "Hey now, all you killers, put your lights on...."
"Killing is always inside the family (Oedipal). In the wisdom of primitive war, enemy blood is kindred blood; blood becomes kindred blood by being shed. Whatever is killed becomes the father. Head hunting. An enemy must be killed for a boy to grow up; a head must fall. The boy kills his father in the person of an enemy. And then the slain enemy becomes his guardian spirit; the enemy head (super-ego) presides over the house; love your enemy." Love's Body. 163.
There is no identity established except by killing. To kill the other is to divide the other into food and shit; this digestive process establishes the identity of the killer. "Hey now, all you killers, put your lights on...."
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