Abstract
This book offers a structure for perceiving that perceptual structures are illusory. The offer is an obligation, and a challenge. It asks, do you want? Can you embrace, do you want to be able to embrace that want?
Catastrophe is also birth. Out the ruins crawls the bloody thing, unrecognizable in the ripped rags of former life. Ghastly breaths of unfamiliar air! Like the infant, expelled from the silent womb, screams red its horror, then tastes oxygen. I have to find my life!
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Notes
R. D. Laing, The Voice of Experience (London: Pelican, 1983) pp. 76–7.
For example, Michelene Wandor’s Look Back in Gender: Sexuality and the Family in Post-War British Drama (London: Methuen, 1987
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Rabey, D.I. (1989). Catastrophe is also Birth: Inconclusion. In: Howard Barker: Politics and Desire. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19910-5_11
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