Shame, Guilt and Signifiers

Freudian libido contains just this type of reincarnate energy, the 'fleshly' type, the 'carnity'1, genuine, as in a structure of desire which originates in an earlier past, combines the scenic and rhetoric with strong, upright symbols that are unconscious.

"The unconscious manifests itself through the representation of the world-objects", so Lacan, ergo as through symbols set upright, take imposing effect. People believing in real earlier, present and later existences within the theory of reincarnation don't quite correctly understand the theory.

The existences are rather of the sort found on the level of the 'fleshly', 'carnal', libidinal2, which is certainly something genuine, true, though not necessarily something real-realistic. Here is where 'matter' experiences actual representation, refers to shame and guilt, is burdened with conflict and distorted. However, in traditional reincarnation theories, these are neither adequately understood nor expressed properly in reference to their symbolism.

They are psychic but unconscious objects of desire, or of claim, not yet sufficiently understandable in their symbolism, though they are 'imaginary signifiers', set upright, unveiling, so that they become perceivable. These psychic, unconscious objects are integrated into the shame and guilt complexes. Their interrelations are anticipated, interpreted and finally - once they are fully expressed - understood and can verbally 'read'.

What would be our advantage in having 'reincarnations' that spool off in front of us as movies, or that continuously invoke desire for or fright of something immediately real (unconscious 'carnal' objects)? Reincarnation is and should be a script in reality, in the 'fleshly', in the 'carnal', in the immediate symbolism of 'light' / 'sound' combinations.3 Then would it be an element of psychoanalysis.

 

1 The Latin word reincarnation must be translated here more in the sense of a 'Re-Carnity'. This also absolutely lies on the same level as what is called the Transubstantiation in Christianity. The body, or 'Carnity', of Christ, transcends and is internalized. Transubstantiation is not derived from the totem ritual, or totem meal, of cannibalism as many authors have claimed. The scenic / rhetorical rather transcends materially, libidinously, is experience able and self-sufficient.

2 Here, Freud also speaks of 'infantile sexuality', i.e. of the infantile (unconscious) desire for size and enticement.

3 Differentiating between imaginary, real and symbolic will prove to be highly fruitful in our research.