Noetic Dysphoria?

Levinas, Caliban, Descartes, Foucault, and Affirmation

I just wrote a mega thread on Levinas. In it, I compare Levinas to Shakespeare’s Caliban—a thinker trapped in the language of someone (Heidegger) from whom he seeks to extricate himself, but cannot. Call it language-dysphoria or noetic-dysphoria. Can you imagine saying, “I’m an X trapped in the mind of a Y?” On what basis would you say it?

The Caliban me…