Individuals who have lost the ability to construct narrative, however, have lost their selves. Similarities between the developmental course in infants of imitation and pretense and the ways the arts present imaginative representations to mature adults argue not only for the deep-rootedness of our aesthetic nature but for the fundamental importance of intersubjective and affective dimensions of the adapted mind. Metaphor, as treated here, is not a rhetorical device or strategy but the primary means by which dream and artistic images arise and give rise in turn to further narrative developments. Hogan, Patrick Colm. Suffering in literature.
Victory makes that violation salient, thus leading to the epilogue.
Reconsiderations Hayles, N. Katherine. Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene and Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus share a common interest in de-throning consciousness as the seat of identity. At the same time, they seek to displace agency into non-conscious actors or dispel it altogether. In this sense they are part of a larger movement within cognitive science and evolutionary biology to define cognition in terms that partially deconstruct the distinction between organisms and environment. Yet their projects differ from this larger movement in that they both rely on performative language to enact dissolutions or displacements that could not take place in empirical reality.