disavowal of the body because it represents the terror of death. Through the imposition of ethical norms,
subject is then subordinated to norms, and the norms are subjectivating, that is, they give an ethical shape to the reflexivity of this emerging subject. The subjection that takes place under the sign of the ethical is a flight from fear, and so is constituted as a kind of flight and denial, a fearful flight from fear … (43)
flight from fear, is a flight from the body … vacating the body and “clinging to what appears to be most disembodied: thought”
Sadism towards the other directed back upon itself