Command

There seems to be something or some part in the person, in the self, that demands or commands the self into the swirl. It is not as if there is a warning. It happens suddenly. I'm not sure it makes any sense to presume one can refuse the demand, because it seems that at the moment one is overcome by the swirl then agency stops. So it makes no sense to intend not to be swept up in the swirl, because as agency dissolves so does intention. It is even difficult to imagine not succumbing to the power of the swirl because at the point of pull the desire to resist just has no traction.

I have been thinking about the swirl in terms of a command, and wondering about the relevance here of Althusser's concept of interpellation. Wikipedia has a useful gloss on this:

Althusser’s notion of interpellation or hailing is a non-specific and unconscious process. For example, when a police officer shouts (or hails) “Hey, you there!” and an individual turns around and so-to-speak ‘answers’ the call, he becomes a subject. Althusser argues that this is because the individual has realized that the hailing was addressed at him which makes him subjective to the ideology of democracy and law." It happens instantaneously.
So, in relation to the swirl it is as if one part of the self 'hails' another part. And the part hailed accedes power and then moves to a space of shame and despair. It is pulled down, demoted and has become a subject constituted by the ideology of the swirl.