in coherence

"I like to be left alone"

A simple statement, that can mean so many things. Some of the various ways include:

1. Simply, the speaking subject enjoys solitude.

2. More likely, the subject is speaking to an Other and is implying through this hint that he would like to be left alone. It is what is left out of the statement that is important.

3. The subject is a neurotic one, as our civilisation is, such that he makes friends only to find that he often loses them. This occurs usually through means which appear beyond the subject's control, such as betrayal, adultery, jealousy, greed, and even death. However the cause is not an external one that belongs to the other, but an unconscious (masochistic) desire to be left alone, since he appears to gain pleasure from being proven correct from in an assumption (such as 'people are never reliable' or 'men/women are jerks/slags' etc.). The pleasure overrides the displeasure gained in the seperation from the other, and all this happens outside of the subject's consciousness. In the end he feels like a victim; yet all this has precipitated from his own hand (or, rather, mind).

Refer to life for more information.
Have a nice day!
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added at 6.20pm:
Roman Jakobson paraphrased: Human speech never merely transmits a message, it always also self-reflectively asserts the basic symbolic pact between the communicating subjects.

Therefore, point 1 is eliminated.