Reading latest article on aphantasia in The New Yorker, am realizing that only an aphant could have come up with anything comparable to lumpentheory.
To wit, lumpentheory is an outsider critique of the unreflective (as in non-introspective) attachment to mental time travel as currency of social contract. Lumpentheory operates from no such attachment, as said theory itself is creature of one without any mental time travel to be attached to. Mental time travel instead appears as an object: an object of concern to the observed other.
The concept of ego-value, thus, might be mistaken for common notions of social hierarchy, the feeling one has of being better than another in the present. This is not it at all.
Ego-value is sunk cost, as revisited through mental time travel, episodic memory, in all its sensory and affective richness, banked for withdrawal on demand. To visit the past as if it were another room is to render the present always a retrofuture in relation.
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