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    Supports→Spacing or blindness is essentially necessary for all forms of auto-affection, including auditory and tactile auto-affection that seem immediate.

    The self seen in the mirror is other than the self who looks; self-coincidence in visual auto-affection is never achieved.

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    More specifically, Derrida argues that, when Husserl describes lived-experience (Erlebnis), even absolute subjectivity, he is speaking of an interior monologue, auto-affection as hearing-oneself-speak. According to Derrida, hearing-oneself-speak is, for Husserl, “an auto-affection of an absolutely unique type” (Voice and Phenomenon, p. 67). It is unique because there seems to be no external detour from the hearing to the speaking; in hearing-oneself-speak there is self-proximity. It seems theref

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