antagonize the soporific fog of solipsism
The disingenuousness of his repeated abrogation of expertise and continued professions that he was unable to write beyond his own perspective, even as he insisted on the central importance of the perspective of the other
on DFW
a young woman's voluntary abjection of her subjectivity in the face of a violent sexual attack
on Brief Interview #20
Lenore embodies the kind of Hegelian dialectic of servitude characteristic of Wallace's engagement with ideas of identity and connection
since Lenore's identity is mostly shaped by her relations with men around her
Wallace was overwhelmed by what he saw as the alterity of the female experience; that is to say, its total alienation from his experience of the world.
