Love, for O’Hara is the ultimate gesture; it is where one ‘becomes’ and ‘knows,’ and therefore, it is the acknowledgement of an ethical obligation. The site is ‘troubled’ because it is a rupture, an intervention, and a disruption in the reality of human relationships, as well as on the surface of language. Through this necessary alterity, one comes “into the world.”
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