[csaa-forum] Derrida and his cat

[Stephen Muecke]

for those interested in "animalité"


The animal I am after all

I often ask myself who I am, just to see, myself — and who I am at the 
moment when I am caught naked, in silence, by the gaze of an animal, 
for example by the eyes of a cat, and I have difficulties, real 
difficulties in overcoming my embarrassment.  Why this difficulty? I 
have difficulty repressing a movement to cover up. Difficulty in 
keeping quiet a desire I have to protest against indecency. And against 
the discomfort you can feel in finding yourself naked, the genitals 
exposed, stark naked in front of a cat which looks at you without 
moving, just to see.

L’animal que donc je suis, éd Marie-Louise Mallet, Paris: Galilée, 2006

Stephen Muecke
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