ABSTRACT
The primal scene of selfhood is a strategic answer to the dilemma of a critical discourse that on one hand maintains the impossibility of moving beyond interpretation but on the other hand has not forgotten that the burden of the truth continues to makes itself felt. It is an effort to answer the unanswerable call of the real from the undisclosed essence of language itself. There is a sense in which people have arrived at a kind of check in regard to the overarching issue of rewriting the self. The chapter emphasizes in looking backward in time rather than forward and also shows how the meaning of the past becomes transformed in light of the present. Fraser has indeed rewritten her self in light of the knowledge she has acquired. In this respect, it is precisely on account of the secret she has discovered that the determination of what seemed to lead to what has become possible.
