Sunday, April 5, 2009

The i! binary in the word-punctle matrix


I dreamt of space—infinite space, unfettered by words: this is the archetypal punctle; that which existed before the master-slave dialectic in whose grumpy grip the text now writhes—grumpy indeed. Let us look at the relationship of inverted reflexivity in the punctle and the letter (that odious elemental fragment of the word): “i” and “!”—indeed!—the concept “i” encompasses all that is essential in the word-essence: it is the “me” of the aforementioned me-we binary and it is central to the personal identity of the text. Opposite this monument to the ego is the exclamatory mark, incidentally a capsized “i”— the collective entity at odds with the personal entity: the collective text. In “i!” exists the totality of a text—a truly individualized work; one that encompasses the individual and the collective; the conscious and the unconscious.

It is for the infinite pleasure that moments of creative intuition afford me (when the obvious-obscure binary that haunts academic fervor bursts at the seams to unveil a golden nugget) that I embrace a total loss of touch with reality.

-i!

Friday, April 3, 2009

The Subconscious Punctle

Foregoing my expoundation on The Jungian Jungle: The Archetypal Punctle, I am obliged to make public my theoretical leanings—though I permit myself such a confession with the resolute, unwavering Esperanza that those readers from whom a diatribe against Jungian analysis may flurry forth (indubitably a product of that healthy academic libido native to the doctorial mind) shall be sweet-tempered in their refutation, for I am but a wounded bird that quakes in the wake of a certain raging synesthete’s laceration of self-consciousness; indeed, victory in the cerebral Tourney of the Ego (woeful the innumerable losses us citizens of Academia have endured through such violent jousting) was of a gilded nature and forth must I trot a Britomarian gait, ever-parrying phallic inquisition.

Yes, Post-Jungian woe is me!

Forget us not that "In the beginning there was pause" and following this pause emerged the word—indeed, the textual identity is fleshed forth via the “me-we"” binary: the punctles: the archetypal symbols ubiquitous—the subconscious of a content; and the word: the conscious dimension comprised of the rational impulse to differentiate a particular work from countless others.

Thus content-identity issues forth.