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self-alienation

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This exercise left Horn with the ineradicable impression that Huppert had engaged in an act of "self-impersonation," a rich term in that it conveys the imitation and imposture, the self-alienation or no-ownership approach to personal properties, which lie at the very basis of personation, while at the same time it reminds us that for each of the personae, no original exists.
To explain the nature of such ambivalence Nash introduces the notion of 'narcissance': a process of self-alienation and coping with inner contradictions.
Perhaps the most telling phrase that Azoulay repetitively employs concerns Walter Benjamin's sense that mankind's self-alienation had, in his own time, reached such a degree that "it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
 
 
 
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