What I had lined up was a discussion of the departure to a type of paradise: the paradise of the world of the 'reality principle'. This, in effect, is all civilizations. From the pleasure principle...the first and most salient use value.... we depart from the mother's tit into the world of pyramid building, false needs, hierarchies, building languages around the first mirroring of the maternal paradise and the like. The necessity of this trip away from the tit is an embarkation...a real journey that is fraught with frustration, a sense of limbo and the encounter...without a great sense of why any of this is useful of the other. Often we are pushed off the tit by the great signifying sibling. This could be a real sibling, a neighbor.... it is the great other who pushes us off the original utility of the tit. The warm milk giving tit in the mother's arms is...as I will outline it here...the original 'extreme use value'. This is the paradise to which we hope to retire yet we also question why we left the tit in the first place. It is here in the embrace that we take on the necessary narcissism that we attempt to recreate with a series of lovers and spouses...to unsatisfactory results usually. It is knocked off the tit that we experience our first exposure to the dysfunction of the pure exchange value: I can and should find my milk and love else where (the new image of the father becomes 'real' mobile, and more agile and stealthy as I perceive him and his world.). Yet I am jealous of the great other sibling and it is there I envy his or her enjoyment of he fresh exposure to life and his sucking on the great ur-signifyer of the tit.
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