ego sum
Anthropos, transmutated, becomes a microcosmic archetype
as the macrocosmic world becomes macranthropic.
My eyes appear to be my eyes, but now
a surplus of alterity becomes revealed:
my eyes also appear to be intimately intertwined
with the opening of lips (oral and vaginal),
with the opening and closing that mark the setting-rising sun and moon,
with the opening of water on the (sur)face of lakes and ponds,
with the opening of earth in the fissures of cracks and crevasses....
I am the center of the cosmos, but this I is not opposed to everything not-I; this center is not opposed to everything marginal or peripheral. The cosmos is an extension of Psyche (the "I am"; ego sum) only insofar as Psyche is an intention of the cosmos. The ego is the center of the cosmos only insofar as this center is dispersed, diffused, scattered, differentiated, displaced. Every place is displaced, every position is disposition, every center is eccentric. The world is a giant Argus.
This coincidence of I and not-I appears insofar as the boundaries of I and not-I are interrupted and ruptured by a wholly other power that makes possible the opening of distance and stance, disposition and position, eccentric and center. We coincide with a non-coincidence, which is to say, we coincide insofar as we are broken open by that which is other than coincidence and non-coincidence.
as the macrocosmic world becomes macranthropic.
My eyes appear to be my eyes, but now
a surplus of alterity becomes revealed:
my eyes also appear to be intimately intertwined
with the opening of lips (oral and vaginal),
with the opening and closing that mark the setting-rising sun and moon,
with the opening of water on the (sur)face of lakes and ponds,
with the opening of earth in the fissures of cracks and crevasses....
I am the center of the cosmos, but this I is not opposed to everything not-I; this center is not opposed to everything marginal or peripheral. The cosmos is an extension of Psyche (the "I am"; ego sum) only insofar as Psyche is an intention of the cosmos. The ego is the center of the cosmos only insofar as this center is dispersed, diffused, scattered, differentiated, displaced. Every place is displaced, every position is disposition, every center is eccentric. The world is a giant Argus.
This coincidence of I and not-I appears insofar as the boundaries of I and not-I are interrupted and ruptured by a wholly other power that makes possible the opening of distance and stance, disposition and position, eccentric and center. We coincide with a non-coincidence, which is to say, we coincide insofar as we are broken open by that which is other than coincidence and non-coincidence.