Beyond difference
pp. 168-190
in: , Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity, Berlin, Springer, 2011Abstract
Infinite alterity is quite simply what there is. Any experience at all is the infinite deployment of infinite differences. Even the apparently self-reflexive experience of myself is by no means the intuition of a unity but a labyrinth of differentiations, and Rimbaud was certainly not wrong when he said: ‘I am another.’