The Examined Life

Authors

  • Andrew M. Geeves Macquarie University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7565/landp.2015.010

Abstract

Two prisoners languish in adjacent cells, wishing to communicate with each other. They learn that the most effective way of doing so is by exchanging taps on the wall that divides their cells. The prisoners connect through the very partition that separates them. In this way, the philosopher Simone Weil writes of her thought experiment, “every separation is a link” (1952, p. 132).  

References

Andre, C. (2005). CUTS: Texts 1959-2004. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Epstein, M. (2004). Thoughts without a thinker. New York, NY: Basic Books.

McIlwain, D. (2009). Living palely and the rationality of a certain fullness of feeling. Artlink, 29, 15-24.

Phillips, A., & Taylor, B. (2009). On kindness. London, UK: Penguin.

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Published

01-Dec-2015

How to Cite

Geeves, A. M. (2015). The Examined Life. Language and Psychoanalysis, 4(2), 64–71. https://doi.org/10.7565/landp.2015.010

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Book Reviews

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