Growing tired of the word 'intimacy' to describe her work, Bethany puts forward "the Primal:" an experience beyond conceptualization, that which horrifies us and transcends language. After a brief discussion of intimacy, Bethany outlines--to the extent possible--primal experience. Have we made the mistake of avoiding the primal or believing ourselves to have sufficiently narrativized it, and in doing so have made ourselves more susceptible to the madness it can cause? Does the primal demand new narratives that are less individualistic and more socially-oriented? Is all of this ridiculous and you should just go eat a sandwich and fuck? 

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