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Orifices and Boundaries

Published on Thursday, June 2nd 2011. Edited by Has Prybigfun.

Psychoanalysis emphasises the taboo around parts of the body, including the mouth, through which entry and exit is made to the body. This excludes the eyes, ears and, possibly, the flesh. Regarding at least the eyes this marks a point of difference between British and Lacanian school.
However, the issue here is what is the relationship between this and a sense of being unbounded which may, in fact, be a prerequisite for on line life? All of this needs careful redefinition.
The term 'unbounded' is psychoanalytically loaded. But it may not be the best or only available term that can be used here.
I keep on coming back to that dislodged feeling I associate with Lacanian thought. A particular sense of being dislodged I think relates to perhaps two impossible tasks. Trying to map the mind as a restricted but very specialised set of concepts onto another series of concepts. Trying to map this into clinical practice to which it bears no necessary relationship. Although Lacanians claim otherwise. I take it my own experience comes into this very strongly.