The popular media in UK ask why Kate and William follow the footsteps of Diana in revoking or retracing the traumatic memories of her bitter marriage. I think Kate and William do not follow Diana's footsteps but by sitting in the same Diana bench in the front of Taj Mahal, a universal symbol of love, but they 'decorate' or 'celebrate' over the bitter memories of the past to truly forget her. As Zizek quotes, 'if you want to kill a person bury him, and if you want to forget that grow flowers over the tomb'.
I think Taj Mahal also resembles some mysterious Oriental love of a Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan; a monument of celebration to get rid of past memories. What I fear is (against Jan Moir of Daily Mirror) whether they will fall prey to the melancholic mystery and abyss of the depressing Asian soul....
Pre-philosophical Asian universe can generate-
a. a fantasy that creates the object of desire (mysterious unknown phantasmic kernel) for the Western soul.
b. an 'economy of enjoyment' (that is why Yannis Varufakis says "others do not America but America needs others") that sustains the Western Enlightenment inheritance or the European Reality by excluding the mythical despotic content that can 'return' like a ghost to the Post-Enlightened world.
Click the hyperlink for the Daily Mail article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3544910/Why-fear-picture-proves-Kate-Diana-s-shadow-William-hoped-recreating-mother-s-Taj-Mahal-pose-finally-lay-ghost-rest-contrary-says-JAN-MOIR.html
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