Knowing Me, Knowing You: Becoming Father, Becoming Son in the Fluid Play of Memory, Affect, and Intuition

The recognition of his deceased father in an old war-time picture sets in play for the writer the undoing of the self through the temporal and fluid reterritorialization of the space historically delineated, identified, and owned by the collective signifier "father and son." Aware of living in and contributing to the crisis of representation and instigated by the event of revelation, the writing attempts to show how this signifier is placed under erasure, how "father and son" becomes other, how previous resistances to reflexivity are challenged, and how, through a praxis of differentiation, a delirious freeing of the self is seen to emerge.