From corporeal arche to telos, from one fragmentation to another: the body gestalt is an ideal situtated by its own doubles, its own representations. If anatomy is indeed destiny, as Freud claimed, then there is a dual, bisexual order of destiny, structured according to the two modes of identification, the two types of object choice (narcissistic and anaclitic), and the two modes of fascination. Anatomy is destiny, but it entails a history of illusions, a dialectic without ends.
Such a transcendental illusionism is the foundation of both truth and the ego. Appearances do not dissimulate the truth: they are nothing but themselves, the ruins of Being. “Truth” is just a second order phenomenon, a distortion of distortion, a necessary illusion.