Sunday, March 25, 2012

Self-consciousness vs the Other

Self-consciousness only exists when acknowledged. Second ambiguity becomes the action of one self-consciousness with double significance, creating its own actions and the action of the Other. Both are independent. This reminds me of the movie, Inception, when Ellen Page is told she is in control of her own dreams and the self defense and consciousness within herself starts to attack the Other. The figments of her imagination start to turn on the real her. Each seeks the death of the other. The Other and self cannot be held without contradiction. They are also entangled and endanger the death of the other. We can never get outside of the circle, like we can never reach the ontic. We are trying to free ourselves from the Other and they are doing the same. We must absorb the Other.

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