Expression requires a closed individual self, which paradoxically isolates that self completely.

Evidence

Here too Munch’s painting stands as a complex reflection on this complicated situation: it shows us that expression requires the category of the individual monad, but it also shows us the heavy price to be paid for that precondition, dramatizing the unhappy paradox that when you constitute your individual subjectivity as a self-sufficient field and a closed realm, you thereby shut yourself off from everything else and condemn yourself to the mindless solitude of the monad, buried alive and condemned to a prison cell without egress. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 71

Categorization

• XREF: Munch’s Scream works as a concrete exemplar the reader can use when explaining the centered subject’s paradox to others. — connects to: Subjectivity here means being unable to get out of oneself, a closed box — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 844; Even mental undressing of another requires literally incarnating oneself.; Self-presence requires an internal separation that is itself nothing (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Subjectivity here means being unable to get out of oneself, a closed box — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 844; Even mental undressing of another requires literally incarnating oneself.; Self-presence requires an internal separation that is itself nothing (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Totality of being arises only through the detotalized for-itself #complicates (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 585