The play of this form of play constitutes not only the we that we think we are, but the rules that we play by , the space in which we play and even , and most clearly, exactly who wins. The Mahayana theorists of the Madhyamika would certainly agree. According to Nagarjuna, it is the conventional formulations of language that specifically constitutes the relatively real. For the Madhyamika, the play of conceptualization in the field of mind is the play of the constituents of self in and around other constituents of other hypothetical selves in the social and physical arrangements that are created in the interstices between them. The games hypothetical people play in the field of the relatively real is the relatively real.
Mothers don t win.
They caution, reprimand, nag and speak other forms of protective language, but they don t win because they are not allowed to play. Their breasts sag.,their stomachs bag, and their boys resist, resent and finally move away. Mothers are then consigned to the silence of the deserted yard. Another friend, a woman, hastens to assure me that mine is a one-sided and quite inadequate characterization of the function of the voice of the feminine in this particular form of communication. However, since the familiar mothering role I have described is so familiar, I somehow doubt that the characterization provided by my male friend is entirely off the mark.