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Dealing with various questions that were raised by Francisco Gonzalez's and Stephen Hartman's commentaries, this response discusses the connection between mimesis and perversion, distinguishing between forms of mimesis at the service of death and forms of mimesis at the service of life. The concept of The Lyricism of the Mind is used as a prism through which perversion is understood as a mechanism enacted against mentalization: a form of loss without mourning.