(The title being a take off on this, which I am certain you remember from September 04.) (The subject? Nothing to do with me, hum hum.)

{ fin }

There is not narcissism and non-narcissism; there are narcissisms that are more or less comprehensive, generous, open, extended. What is called non-narcissism is in general but the economy of a much more welcoming, hospitable narcissism, one that is much more open to the experience of the other as other. I believe that without a movement of narcissistic reappropriation, the relation to the other would be absolutely destroyed, it would be destroyed in advance. The relation to the other—even if it remains asymmetrical, open, without possible reappropriation—must trace a movement of reappropriation in the image of oneself for love to be possible . . .

—Entretien avec Jacques Derrida, Digraphe 42

Oh, reappropriate me, baby, feels so good.