Deliberative consciousness can only be resisted, never fully escaped

Evidence

The formula—“scrupulous declaration of interest in the text of the production of Value”—that I offer comes out of the most problematic effect of the sovereign subject, the so-called deliberative consciousness. Thus, there is no guarantee in deconstruction for freezing this imperative into a coercive theoretical universal, though it is of course subject to all the constraints of ethico-logical grounding. The encroachment of the fictive (related, of course, to the textual) upon this operation cannot be appreciated without passing through the seemingly deliberative which, even in the most self-conscious transferential situation, can, at any rate, only be resisted rather than fully avoided. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1033

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does Spivak’s claim that analysis in transference can only ‘resist’ the deliberative bear on whether strategic essentialism can be sustained without collapse into genuine belief?
• XREF: connects to: Escaping monologic reason requires replacing philosophy of consciousness with communicative rationality — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 383; Conscience can be selectively disengaged without psychological instability

Broader Connections

• Escaping monologic reason requires replacing philosophy of consciousness with communicative rationality #responds-to (0.78) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 383
• Conscience can be selectively disengaged without psychological instability #qualifies (0.72)