The introduction of a special type of homosexual who exists "less exclusively beneath of Saturn’s outrider", whose material pleasures know "certain imperious localizations" and who "would shock most people by theur avowals" should, however, caution us against hastily equating the various characters that populate Proust’s theory of sexuality with analytical concepts such as identification, the ego ideal, object choice or the "melancholic formation of gender", until we have ass

We know of an organism which, before becoming a plant, possesses a nervous system with a vestibular organ crowned by an eye, which in turn is mounted on a peduncle [Llinás, 2002]. Its entire life consists of filtering water and reproducing by budding. In its larval stage, it is equipped with a ganglion comprising three hundred cells which, like a central nervous system, guides it for a day, or even less, until it has finally found a comfortable spot where it can settle: “The