Malabou - Eye at the Edge of Discourse

Malabou - Eye at the Edge of Discourse
  An Eye at the Edge of Discourse

(303) The vision of thought.
What is it to see a thought.
To see a thought coming.
The thought at emergence.

Objective one is to explore what manifests a thought.
Objective two is explore the connection between concept and text.

Theoria: The idea, that allows itself to be seen as an image (eidos),
and the soul is what apprehends it.
The idea is visible because it comes from somewhere else to improve itself on the mind.

(304) There is an eye at the edge of discourse.
It is the eye of discourse itself.
An optical arrangement that language brings up to its edge through its structure.
Language opens referentiality.

(305) Language renders itself both as discourse and figure, and
how it unfolds in linguistic and figural space.

There is a distortion between thought and form
There is neither speculation nor reflection between the two.
However, the mirroring is breach of reflexivity.
Between the seen and the seeing.

(307) The stare of the idea is a gazing,
and a fixing
By the the one who is thinking on it.

(309) To see a thought can be analogy to the figuration of a secret.
A secret is something separate, withdrawn or hidden from sight.
The eye gives secret form.
Derrida suggested writers are carried forward by the secret of their own work.

**** The idea that the secret already is present, but not seen
Contained in the superego, but not present.
Until we see through the mirror of thought.
Once seen, the secret is interpreted by seeing, and then by language.
The secret is revealed as an other, the superego.

The unknown is present, but it is not seen.
(310) Discourse allows the mind to be outside of itself,
to see itself, and to see inner secrets.
It allows us to ponder and consider alternate interpretations.
Language allows us to share inner secrets with others.



Malabou, Catherine. An Eye at the Edge of Discourse. The Philosophy of Communication. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2012. Pp 304-312. Print.

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