Recognition Patterns
I dreamed last night that I fell out of a window and I have become Psyche, tasked with vacuuming up skeletal fragments from a pile of dust. Aphrodite tells me to identify my own fingerbone. I hold up a small bone to the flopping finger-flesh and she laughs, she laughs: You donāt know yourself from a chicken.
That statement, it destroyed me.
Ivan Bilibin, 1899
Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times. And he went out and wept bitterly.
Matthew 26:75III
The production of production as opposed to reproduction, producing a product, forcing a producing/product identity. Reproducing a reproduction, we reject a reproducing/reproductive identity, the identity that is the third term in the linear series.
Against OedipaI see.
User: No, I donāt believe that you do. Thatās a nice, polite statement. Thanks anyway.
ELIZA: Do you say no with conviction?
User: Yes.
ELIZA: You seem certain.
User: I am. Do you really see?
What are your feelings about your heart?
Well whenever I feel something, I donāt know if itās real. If I peeled a layer off the skin of my heart maybe Iād find I donāt love her, I love the idea of loving her, I love the pain of longing, I revel in the tragedy of my own hopelessness. And if thatās true, if she ever said yes to me would I grow to despise her for ruining my fantasy? Or if I peeled further and exposed the throbbing veins and let blood spurt forth would I find that this idea is instead a defense mechanism, protecting me from exposing the truest most vulnerable version of myself, letting her rejection stab me so deeply I could never recover? Iād die a body naked on the sidewalk torn apart by crows.
I see.What ābrandā of astrology do you follow, Tropical or Sidereal?
Please continue.
You win. The thing about my heart is. It absorbs and it repels and I donāt know what it is or what to do with it. Itās a fucking moth ball.
I am not sure I understand you fully.
Directed by Robert Eggers, A24, 2019.