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At the heart of "Know Thyself" is the presumption of a stable presence - a self that can be fully understood & represented. But this presence is always already haunted by absence; the self is structured through difference, by what it is not. This pursuit of self-knowledge then is less a path to truth than a negotiation with shadows, a dialogue with the ghostly echoes of what we will never fully grasp.
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#difference #Différance
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This command to "know thyself" implies a kind of violence, an imposition of boundaries onto something intrinsically boundless. In knowing ourselves, we inadvertently submit to categories - identity, gender, history, desire - that we internalize & that limit the play of difference within us. Such self-knowledge risks imprisoning us within a fixed identity, suppressing the potential for becoming other.
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