the categories

Couldn't help but think of Kant a little bit when I read this article:

http://www.slate.com/id/2214940


Dederer's quote:

"In other words, the girl tries to be normal. She tries to define her experience through the accepted language of emotion. But Gaitskill is never interested in accepted language. She rejects the usual psychological readings of the self. What we call emotional reality, Gaitskill calls categories." (Page 2 of the article, italics mine).



Kant's got a lot of stuff about the categories. It's almost strikingly similar to what Gaitskill is trying to achieve. Moreover, Gaitskill is a critic of Rand, who was a critic of Kant. So there's a neat little circle there, too.