If you want to understand the Joseph story, follow the clothing, especially the coat of many colors.
Wrote about the importance of breaking illusions and puncturing personas in an effort to find freedom and true love.
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Wrote about the importance of breaking illusions and puncturing personas in an effort to find freedom and true love.
etzhasadeh.substack.com/p/vanishing-po…
“Joseph was never a child: he was a great man trapped in the body of a little boy.“
“The colorful tunic which Jacob gifts Joseph is an icon of mimetic rivalry. Its desirability derives from its scarcity, representing Jacob’s scarce love… There is no modest way to wear a garment whose meaning and intent is to demonstrate preferential treatment.”
The coat of many colors is the false, histrionic life of the Instagram Vacation Selfie, making others feel bad about themselves, while self-deceiving oneself about how one’s own life really is.
Even the gesture of Potiphar’s wife, clutching at Joseph’s garment, may be read in this way. If I can’t have the man, I can at least post about my “experience” with him.
As David Foster Wallace describes in his short story “Good Old Neon,” a person can be so disassociated that he spends his whole life living for what others might think of him. The k’tonet passim is the garment we all want, but for the wrong reasons.
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