In relation to his mother Jack is the "self" that is constructed by the other [m(other)] within a "symbiotic relationship" with her. This is made apparent in her statements. For example, "We're like people in a book and he [Old Nick] won't let anybody else read it (90). "I used to dream about being rescued (104)." The mother is the "other" in Jack's "self/other dyad". The mother is the "signifier interpreter" in this story that Jack tells. However this is an other wise ["other" - wise] unmediated "case study" of "self report". It shows a limited perspective of "reality" from Jack's first years of his life. His formative years inside of the room "constructed" his "intrapersonal phenomenal world" -- his own self talk. But was it really his own? Jack's grasp on the concept of theft, borrowing and taking lets us peek into Jack's "intrapersonal phenomenal …show more content…
Jack knows he is taking his "intra-psychic construction" from the other -- from [m(other)]. To back this up, Jack said, "Stealing [taking] is when a boy takes what belongs to some boy else, because in books and TV all persons have things that belong just to them, its complicated (33)." The quintessential, the bold erudition, the discovery in the "exegesis" is the "indexicality" that is fused with the signifier interpreter -- the [m(other)] -- she who interprets, she who signifies, has already been "co-constructed" by her complex existential interpersonal world with others outside of the room. Jack had been isolated from this complexity and richness of healthy interpersonal relations. This brings into question the subject of deep structure, its contributing factors and the resultant "semiosis" as it relates to "surface