The Phantom of the Ego Quotes

“This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the development of the human species) mimesis, for Nietzsche, precedes language and allows communication to take place.”
― Nidesh Lawtoo, The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious

“Lawrence continues to be central in our postmodern period because he gives us the theoretical tools to understand why, exactly, a culture that privileges the eye over the body, mimetic representations over mimetic impersonations, continues to be haunted by what he calls “phantasmal consciousness.”
― Nidesh Lawtoo, The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious

“If we are right in claiming that mimesis, like the god Janus, is double-faced, both philosophical in theoretical conception and artistic in affective dramatization, then, in order to understand its workings, mimetic patho(-)logy will have to confront both its conceptual and its affective face, both the pathos and the logos that transect this Janus-faced concept.”
― Nidesh Lawtoo, The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious