The Different

The formal logical refutation is a decision based on preference. The opposition between the rational and the irrational is only a matter of formal choice. The logic works also on another level than just the one we are able to show in a formalized way, written in the language of symbolic logic. The logic transcends its formal writing. Human brain is able to make the sense of the irrational, of dreams for example. This is an old insight of psychoanalysis. The irrational is fully operative on the level of the unconscious. It participates in the construction of meaning....  

Do What Thou Wilt

There is the third way in between. The other way, the way beyond the opposites. The dualism is the constitution of the maya. In between IS the Void – extract the Will in between.

You will be the one you want to be.

Recommended soundtrack to meditate upon the above:

Rotting Christ, KATA TON DAIMONA EAYTOY

http://www.season-of-mist.com/bands/rotting-christ

The Religious and Meaning

The ‘religious’ considers various complexes of interpretation of reality and/or fantasy of reality, perceived, in truth and/or doubt, as well as those discerned as meaningful and/or accepted in faith. The ‘religious’ would be a boring notion if separated from the human testimonies of the so called religious phenomena as we find those reflected in human existence, experience, consciousness, perception and moreover important as a corpus or testimony of the human search for meaning. 

Away from the objet petit a: embarking on the path of the ex-sistence

Each relation is always libidinal. The base upon which the other is experienced as repelling or attractive is determined by a libidinal response whereas the certain amount of the libido is to be invested in the relation. Simultaneously, the amount of libidinal investment in the other varies depending whether the other is perceived to possess the object of one’s desire or not, and to trigger one’s desire. This, of course, is not reducible only to the erotic attraction. The libido is at the base of each relation as it were. More precisely, the libido underlies our relations. It supports our actions unconsciously, which does not imply that libido determines action but predisposes us to act. The libido simply drives us to any action. On the other hand, the direction of our action is determined by the object-cause of the desire. The cultivation of desire is a way out to upheave the instinctive pursuit of desire.... 

A fragment upon the death of Socrates

Love found inherently in between human beings... Eros and eros, the double notion and the difference. The phallogocentric love and the love of wisdom... perhaps the most dangerous idea of Socrates, it provoked the rage of the patrons of cultic conformism of the old Athens – which was probably not without influence on the politics of democracy.... 

Madness: from 'sickness' to 'unbehagen' and beyond

The term 'madness' is of course not used in psychiatry today. However, it is used generally as a negative term and synonymous with the 'sickness'. What if the 'sickness' perceived as the madness of the other actually points out the ignorance of its real and disavowed meaning? Maybe we need to understand the place of 'sickness' as inherently human rather than depraved of human nature. I think Freud’s notion of the 'discontent' (unbehagen) in the culture is able to provide us with a theory of the 'sickness'. (See Freud, The Civilisation and Its Discontents; the German original Das Unbehagen in der Kultur)

The discontent is a tension of inner splitting, or in Lacanese, the uneasiness felt before the abject encountered as an obstacle to the enjoyment. The discontent/uneasiness is innate. According to Freud the uneasiness is “phylogenetically” reproduced in the individual history of each human being. Its origin is uncertain, but in a Platonic fashion in the Totem and Taboo Freud approximates the genesis of uneasiness in his mythological narrative of the decisive event at the dawn of humanity, supposedly responsible for the shape of human consciousness in the disavowed image of the primordial repression: the murder of the dominant figure of the primordial horde. This figure is later arguably to become the symbol of the Father.

To extrapolate further on Freud, the murderous event was probably a failure due to some practical reason. The failure of the murderous action – not of the murder itself – is that it left the emptiness in the place of the dominant figure who was instinctively perceived as the guarantee of the order, hierarchy and property in the primal horde. The murder shakes the foundation of the natural right, instinctively perceived as the ruler the primal horde. The elimination of the guarantee of this order causes its collapse whereas the human culture is born; now ruled by the Law or, the Name of the Father, to put it with Lacan - the Law as the the symbolic presence of absence, of the forever lost figure of the real power (consequently repressed in the real).

The uneasiness we feel before the 'sickness' of madness echoes our own discontent from within, the dimensions of the self we disavow - not some alien intrusion from the outer space, as we are rather used to (mis)perceive it in the Hollywood’s (per)version of reality. However, as Lacan maintains in the Seminar VII: both the perversion and sublimation intents the same or other morality.

Virginal Extractions

'Extra virgin' - indeed a pure virgin?