Often Overlooked Essays in Écrits: "Variations on the Standard Treatment," Part 2
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The Death of the Child
LeCon is making a shift from the fragmented body that we all experience when we were initially born, and how that body is tinged with death. The state of death that LeCon is referring to? Well what is it to be dead? You would lack all motor coordination. Were you dead? It is a state of ultimate repose, passivity, calm. This is almost like a pre-life state. Here though we're talking about the post-life experience,. When you don't just lack a lot of motor coordination as the baby does, death is like the perfection of the baby. But noticeably it's one that is not angsty about it. It is a body also
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