"Let no man separate what God hath joined." The power to separate and join belongs to God alone, not man; man is subject to this process of separating and uniting, to this God, Thanatos/Eros. I am slave to this process, not master of it, a by-product, an after-image. The separation situation is the experience of the desire for unification; inferentially there is the desire to separate. Inferentially, the experience is always and only the desire for the opposite situation.

My birth is a casting out; I am what is cast out into the separation situation. Suddenly I feel the pang of separation and the hunger to re-unite, to return to the previous situation. In the separation situation desire is polarized, it meets itself in a feed-back loop. The actor who plays the part of Eros meets the actor who plays the part of Thanatos, "together for the first time on the same stage." The separation situation is a story, a dramatic confrontation between eating and shitting, and the purpose of the confrontation it to perpetuate itself. The play is the God, not the besotted actors.

The body of the play is a genuine two-in-one, a corporate, incorporating body; a body-in-coitus; a hermaphrodite. It appears to the players that there are two separate bodies; the players identify themselves with one of the parts of the corporate whole, which is inclusive of both parts. Absent this identification of the participants with opposite parts, it appears the play can't go on. The whole experience is schizophrenic. " The crucified body, the crucified mind. The norm is not normality but schizophrenia, the split, broken , crucified mind." Love's Body. 186.