Pornographic Faith: Two Sources of Naked Sense at the Limits of Belief and Humiliation (original) (raw)

In this chapter I operate as a symptomologist, in the sense that Gilles Deleuze, in describing his early work on masochism, distinguished symptomology, "or the study o signs," as "a kind o neutral point, a limit" separate and perhaps prior to etiology (the study o causes) and the therapeutic (the application o a treatment or remedy). Drawing the outline o symptoms is as much the work o the artist or writer, Deleuze tells us, as it is o the doctor or clinician, with the di erence being that here I will end up focusing less on signs than on signals-those gestures, steps, or winks that pass without signifying-so as to draw out the path that is signaled by the passerby in passing.