The Self
Posted by admin on September 28, 2008, 11:40 am
Think about the following quotation from Shelley Jackson’s “Stitch Bitch” in relation to any of the texts we have studied so far: “I don’t want to lose the self, only to strip it of its claim to naturalness, its compulsion to protect its boundaries, its obsession with wholeness and its fear of infection. I would like to invent a new kind of self which doesn’t fetishize so much, grounding itself in the dearly-loved signs and stuff of personhood, but has poise and a sense of humor, changes directions easily, sheds parts and assimilates new ones.”
