Hierarchy in Language: The Vector Of Meaning Which Is Quilting Point Tension
Hierarchy in Language: The Vector Of Meaning Which Is Quilting Point Tension
A further expansion of The Ego And The Hyperstate's concept of the superego-as-unity. Discussing the gap (Ch. 4 Ideology in Wonderland) via Lacanian psychoanalysis.
The Lacanian notion of the quilting point in essence, that a master signifier (S1) or set of signifiers (S2) is not arbitrary, but rather, it is important to the psyche for reasons which are libidinal/historical/(I would add “natural” to whatever degree that exists, for general understanding of the concept purposes)/ or within the laws of society (Name of the Father). This is despite signifiers (language, which the unconscious is structured by) being arbitrary in that they are signs which are self-referential.
Without Quilting Points, we run into the problem of psychosis and the inability to use language and the existing symbolic orders, causing slippage of perceived reality to various degrees.
For the non-psychotic or, for the psychotic as well who maybe just lacks the right Quilting Points or quantity of Quilting Points, we get into the realm of split sets of knowledge being linked together by order, or a hierarchy of signifiers.
The siginificant of the split between Quilting Points of knowledge (S2, gap, S2) varies wildly based on the content of the knowledge which is split.
The Gap Between Progressivism and Conservatism
The gap between conventional progressive politics and conservative politics can not help but to be played upon, as the gap is taken into both sets of knowledge. Knowledge of progressivism (pS2) is in fact, knowledge of progressivism via the gap in an infinite feedback loop. pS2= (pS2, gap, cS2). The quilting point always expands through it’s various negatives, which is to say the nothing of politics as well as the opposition of politics.
Progressivism is defined not only by what is progressive, but what is conservative, as well as what is nothing. There is a surplus which can never be smoothed over into an exact program because there is tension in between the quilting points.
There are ideas of a “center”:
In addition to the idea of a “center,” there is an idea of “being centered,” which also varies wildly, via the non-center.
We have a synthetic view of what it is good because what is good for us, contains also the negation of what is bad, as well as a particular fantasy of how that comes together concretely. If a string was tied between these points, you could call the ideas of being centered in the non-center as the “notes,” or “music” of each idea of good.
Conclusion:
We can not help, once again, to be in the position to decide the good-in-itself based on self-reflection. There is no center, there is no escape from the opposition, only Absolutely Particular concretizations of good. We are doomed to concretize the good, no matter how clean an abstract notion may be, we are doomed to ex-sist, in the Lacanian sense, via the linguistic property of consciousness. This particular property of The Gap causes a plethora of concretized abstractions, filled with surplus fantasies of the concretizer.