This was a great discussion! Thank you both for this. My 2 cents: So long as there is self in any capacity, even if there is only one self that has subsumed all else, the monstrous will remain. That self would find an internal Other that would become the monster, its own dark reflection, as part of its individuation AS a self. Even the egoless self needs its monsters. If there were NO self, NO awareness, then maybe no monsters (imo).
This was a great discussion! Thank you both for this. My 2 cents: So long as there is self in any capacity, even if there is only one self that has subsumed all else, the monstrous will remain. That self would find an internal Other that would become the monster, its own dark reflection, as part of its individuation AS a self. Even the egoless self needs its monsters. If there were NO self, NO awareness, then maybe no monsters (imo).
Love this!