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February 12, 2008

Care as Meaning of Dasein: Love and Concern

Posted by dasein42 under Absolute Enslavement
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Care

  1. Love

    1. Highest Importance

      Love is of the highest importance in most of the M/s relationships I’m familiar with, and is the fullest form of Care for a human being. In loving the slave, the Master puts him/herself on the line and envelops and protects the slave in the context of His/Her World. In returning the love the slave accepts his/her place and the protection and security afforded. All the small concerns, the small things that we allow to matter to us, are subsumed in the overall meaning that the love involved manifests.

  2. Concern

    In smaller ways than love Care manifests in all the “taking care of” that we do, all the small concerns that we have dealings with. In entering enslavement the slave accepts that his/her concerns and dealings are henceforth at the Master’s discretion. In accepting enownment from the slave the Master accepts that the slave will depend on him/her for direction in what needs to be taken care of and how.

    1. Matters

      1. “Let Matter To”

        We have concerns and Care fundamentally because things “matter” to us, or to put it better, we allow beings in the World to affect us, to be important or unimportant, to have meaning.

        In an M/s relationship the web of meaning is determined by the Master’s World. The slave learns what “ matters” and what doesn’t in a constant, and hopefully consistent, training through all the substructures of Care documented earlier.

 

February 12, 2008

Care as the meaning of Dasein in M/s Relationships

Posted by dasein42 under Absolute Enslavement
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Meaning of Dasein (Human Being)

Care is named in “Being and Time” as the fundamental meaning of Dasein, or human Being. Within the structure of Care lie a number of substructures. This examines how these structures and substructures function within an M/s dynamic.

  1. Understanding

    Understanding functions as a structure in the overall meaning of human being in that we are always already in process of understanding things, the World, and other human beings. Specifically within the M/s dynamic things are understood and people are understood within the context (World) of the Master. By sharing this context and sharing his/her understanding with the slave the Master envelops the slave in a web of meaning through which the slave can come to understand any particularity in the specific way the Master wills it to be understood.

  2. Interpretation

    Similarly to understanding, the human being is always interpreting observations, mood, emotions, etc., in a way that is always “mine” to the specific human being. Within the M/s dynamic “mineness” is the purview of the Master, so the slave is content to interpret in the way he/she has been and is continuing to be trained by the Master.

  3. Discourse

    In discoursing between Master and slave of course directives are given, obeisance is returned. But much of the discourse is general discourse such as you would hear from any intimate couple. In this discourse being-with takes place, as it does with other people, but also the Master’s context and web of meaning is impressed upon the slave and the slave’s knowledge of that world consolidated.

  4. Physicality (Bodying)

    Bodying is not much mentioned in Heidegger, but with a cue from Merleau-Ponty we can say that in everything we do we body forth ourselves as a physicality, not as a separate mind-body entity. The physicality between Master and slave that expresses itself in sex, bdsm play, corporal punishment etc. is an involved and evolving expression of meanings inherent in the relationship.