Saturday, March 10, 2007

Adam is the first human name giver, the original classifier. The system is the classification of the creatures of the dream; it is the division of the world of experience into species. Species are groups made up of members who share something in common that distinguishes them from other groups. There is nothing in the world of group experience that is not subject to the borders between groups. This systematic classification of experience is the action which confines the experence of the whole body within a system of exclusive boundaries; the trait shared in common is the distinction. Identity is group identity.

What if I receed to the body that exists before Adam is given the power to name, and back further still to the body which contains within it, this God who makes the creatures that Adam names? The God is the primordial child afloat in the mothering womb. The primordial child hallucinates the natural/historical world, as he floats in his mothering womb. The child never acually emerges from the womb anymore than the nucleus emerges from the cell. "The exodus is an intiation; the wandering is a rite of passage, from Troy to New Troy, from England to New England. From the mother to the mother; we are getting nowhere. And the wandering is all in the mother...." Love's Body. 41.

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