ABSTRACT
As Bowie writes, for Lacan the deficit of impermanent human expression carries with it the impermanent, deficient nature of life: '[all] productions of the human mind are already marked with their death's head: fading, falling, falling short, falling apart, lapsing and expiring are their native doom'. Richard Sheppard notes the importance to Huelsenbeck of the idea that humans are spiritual beings who have the ability to transcend themselves, which is variously described by Huelsenbeck as identical to Heidegger's Sorge (care), Logos ((self)-knowledge), and love. Sheppard also notes the importance of human 'petitesse' to Dada: For the Dadaists, human beings become truly human only when they accept the smallness of their place within Creation, admit their dependence on the material world, and cultivate a respect for the natural powers that flow through and around them. Mary Shelley writes of Dr Frankenstein's creation that at the beginning of its existence it was capable both of monstrous evil and monstrous good.
