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Pornography and obscenity . . . work by specialism
and fragmentation. They deal with figure without a
ground—situations in which the human factor is
suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks. In the
same way, the individual can be separated out from
the society, Robinson Crusoe style. I first began to
explain . . . that pornography and violence are by-
products of societies in which private identity has
been scrubbed or destroyed by sudden
environmental change, or unexpected
confrontations which disrupt the image which the
individual or the group entertains of itself. Any loss
of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and
rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by