Love In A Time Of SlaveryOrThe Conceptualization Of The Young-Girl, And Why I Probably Won't Be Getting Any Sleep Tonight

After several hours of reading an excerpt from Tiqqun's "Raw Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl"... and re-reading... and re-re-reading, I was able to reflect. During my reflection, I couldn't help but wonder

There was SO MUCH going on. It was reminiscent of James Joyce, only I didn't despise this experience as much. There were several key points and Ontological one-liners dispersed throughout that each deserve far more attention than I am able to (and desire to) give in this response here. I would, however, like to address a few notions that rang clear to me amid the apparent cacophony.

The first thing I would like to address is the nature of the Young-Girl as something that exists conceptually. The Young-Girl appears to exist along the same plane as abstract concepts like "love", or "yellow". By that I mean, the Young-Girl is the sort of thing that you know it when you see it, but you can't just explain it to someone who has no reference/experience of it. In addition, like love & yellow, it appears that the only way that you can portray the concept is through example. "Young-Girl" is used 622 TIMES in this section of text.

Moving forward, there are specific instances of the Young-Girl's existence I would like to bring to light. Consider the conceptualization of the Young-Girl as slave. So Tiqqun speaks of the Young-Girl being "the final slavery; by which the silence of the slaves has been achieved". I'll admit, of all the slave references, I understood this the least. I suppose it was in reference to how refined the Young-Girl is as a mirror; the ultimate manifestation of the ideology of those holding the reigns of her enslavement? Let me move forward. Describing her reality in the slave dialectic, Young-Girl seems not only to affirm the control of the masters in this case, but through submission affirms her own control. I have been through this text numerous times, and can not find the exact statement to which I am referring here; I apologize. To paraphrase, it went something like "she reverses the situation, and as a slave oppresses the oppressors". I can't figure out if the Young-Girl is a sexual being, or perhaps a sexualized being? Maybe, dependent on her context, she exhibits characteristics of [behaves like] either one? Or both? (like how light behaves like a wave, and/or like a particle).

Next, I was concerned with the Young-Girl's experience of love, and happiness. The Young-Girl appears to be unable to love for herself. There is a desire for love, but there is a fully understandable hesitation. "The Young-Girl wants to be either desired lovelessly or loved desirelessly. In either case, her unhappiness is safe". From my understanding of the text, to be desired suggests a possessive sexual relationship. Love then would be something she wishes to compartmentalize from desire. If the Young-Girl is to be used to satisfy desire, do not taint the experience with the sentiment of love. If she is to be loved, do not contaminate it with desire. Doing so isn't necessarily a bad thing for anyone else, but it would really screw up the essence of the Young-Girl. Also, consider whether or not the Young-Girl is capable of love. "There can be nowhere a person feels so painfully alone as in the arms of the Young-Girl".
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Maybe it is that the Young-Girl has an affinity for joyless existence, and empty smiles? I would like to discuss love further.

Finally (for now), the Young-Girl is a gendered experience. There are female and male Young-Girls. Would this not suggest that aside from the multitude of performances that the Young-Girl puts on to create and maintain relationships with others, perhaps the grand performance is being the Young-Girl.