When the tattooer realized that the young man was serious, he drew a knife. He had a knife because he had been using it to experiment with a new way of tattooing. That part of our being (mentality, feeling, physicality) which is free of all control let's call our 'unconscious'. Since it's free of control, it's our only defence against institutionalized meaning, institutionalized language, control, fixation, judge- ment, prison. Ten years ago it seemed possible to destroy language through language... read more
