To supplement the CDF's letter, it could be stated that there is a corresponding set of gifts, such as prophesying, resisting, building, ordering, and initiating to which all Christians are also called but that males may live with "particular intensity and naturalness." These are active gifts, associated with
exteriority. Even more will be said about masculinity and discipleship in the next section.
As a spiritual being, man is autonomous in relation to
exteriority. He can engage a special power to train himself in the process of reality metamorphosis, even while there occurs a change of the self, a transformation of his inner world.
Levinas's discussion of poetry that can illustrate an ethical posture, Agnon's in particular, provides a wedge into understanding this tense relationship of
exteriority cloaked as a responsible form of poetic expression.
In interiority/in
exteriority: thus, not a division between between spontaneous and conscious, and especially not--regarding politics in interiority--a consciousness of object in the old sense, in the Leninist form of consciousness of antagonism to the State (particularly as antagonism today finds itself in a critical phase of quasi-disappearance).
Such work, I believe, might help us better describe the relations between interiority and
exteriority that obtain in, on, and through the body of the writing-subject.
Anna thus exercises a movement from interiority to
exteriority by leaving the realm of the I and welcoming the other.
The question of the membrane is therefore the question of the interface between two ecologies, between the organism's interior milieu and the relations into which it enters with entities and flows outside itself, its milieu of
exteriority, ecology, or environment.
Elsewhere Cascan insightfully hints at the unrepresentability and inimitability of the cry and associates it with spontaneity, transgression, extreme exposure to
exteriority and desire; characteristics which coalesce to make the cry an event: "Nevertheless I daresay you would not be gratified if my lady stooped to imitate a thing so rare and reverenced as this exclamation is....Merely to perform what has been so spontaneous an utterance would compromise the depths of her desire and humiliate her perfect and pathetic nakedness I daresay" (2002, 33).
Reaching an unprecedented meaning, this
exteriority of life hides two things at once, as in a play of mirrors.
Taking his bearings from Deluze's book Proust and Signs, de Beistegui argues that these truths have no independence outside 'the world's being, [...] its contingency and sensible
exteriority.' (50) Thus the truth is not 'there from the start', but 'always in the making'.
(1) It functioned as a hub, propelling these women outwards into new modes of
exteriority.