David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Page 185 ✍️
I wrap my mind around what Lacan said up above...
May someone please supply examples on how the two lacks function?
I would like to fuse some of my readings of literature and would love to hear your feedback on it... In Bruno Schulz's Uncle Karol, the reflection of the main character takes a life of its own in the realm inside the mirror. It is almost as if the negation of existence is another form of existence. In addition to that, in esoterica, those who fell of God's grace, those who sell their soul to the devil, the day after the moment of initiation when they see their reflection on the mirror there image gets distorted to beings that is not what they usually see of themselves before they take this step...
~Less Than Nothing, Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, Vaccinating and Semblances, Page 59 ✍️
Books in the vein of:
Dostoevsky's House of the Dead.
Nabkov's Invitation to a Beheading.
Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Sartre's No Exit.
I have always been a captive of my own mind, and I want to find solace in physically confining yet mentally liberating fiction so that I dont end up doing something stupid to myself ❤️
Please Hegelians, Lacanians, and Zizekians, tell me what is missing and wrong in the following premise:
"The occult begins with a simple yet revolutionary intuition: reality is larger than the world immediately presented to our senses.
Beneath the flow of ordinary events exist hidden dimensions, unseen causes, invisible intelligences, and mysterious intersections of time that quietly shape human existence.
Our lives are not self-contained sequences of isolated actions, but are woven into a deeper fabric whose influences reach us through channels beyond conventional explanation.
These hidden realms act upon us—not through the mediation of religious institutions or fixed doctrines—but directly, subtly, and continuously.
To adopt the occult worldview is to recognize that the visible world is only the surface of reality, while its true architecture lies concealed beneath appearances, silently guiding the patterns, meanings, and destinies of our lives.
All of creation emanate from one great mind, which the Greeks called Nous. This higher mind creates through the exercise of thought. Creation expands outward through concentric circles and planetary spheres of reality---humanity appears within one of these concentric circles."
I do realise that Zizek said once in a lecture about a book about did the ancient Greeks believe in their gods, he stated this in an ironic manner. I could confidently say YES.
How come those who have "Synesthesia" like Nietzsche who claimed he could smell the ideas of past authors through the genius of his nostrils, musicians who could taste melodies, and other musicians who think of music in intensities and shades of colours...
Doesn't the correlation between these different realms of senses prove that we don't acquire knowledge but "tap" into it?
Doesn't the change of perspective, this movement from an error to another error, reveal the truth to us (Freud)?
How come those who have "Synesthesia" like Nietzsche who claimed he could smell the ideas of past authors through the genius of his nostrils, musicians who could taste melodies, and other musicians who think of music in intensities and shades of colours...
Doesn't the correlation between these different realms of senses prove that we don't acquire knowledge but "tap" into it?
Doesn't the change of perspective, this movement from an error to another error, reveal the truth to us (Freud)?
How come those who have "Synesthesia" like Nietzsche who claimed he could smell the ideas of past authors through the genius of his nostrils, musicians who could taste melodies, and other musicians who think of music in intensities and shades of colours...
Doesn't the correlation between these different realms of senses prove that we don't acquire knowledge but "tap" into it?
Doesn't the change of perspective, this movement from an error to another error, reveal the truth to us (Freud)?
Zizek concisely states that:
"It is not how can we reach the true reality beyond appearance, but how can appearance emerge in reality."
What I am trying to state is something that is really analogous to the mystery of the functioning of the eyes; where it is a matter of transmutation rather than a translation from exteriority to the interior realm of the mind...
My thesis is simple: ideas do exist in a realm of their own (which we could not tap into), but the only way we can grasp it is by a transmutative process of what Nietzsche argued in stripping away all relational objects from the object in order to examine it, or what Kafka beautifully managed to suspend the normal sense-making laws where everything moves in a life of its own, in a teleological structure, slowly drifting away to the cliff of the void...
Zizek concisely states that:
"It is not how can we reach the true reality beyond appearance, but how can appearance emerge in reality."
What I am trying to state is something that is really analogous to the mystery of the functioning of the eyes; where it is a matter of transmutation rather than a translation from exteriority to the interior realm of the mind...
My thesis is simple: ideas do exist in a realm of their own (which we could not tap into), but the only way we can grasp it is by a transmutative process of what Nietzsche argued in stripping away all relational objects from the object in order to examine it, or what Kafka beautifully managed to suspend the normal sense-making laws where everything moves in a life of its own, in a teleological structure, slowly drifting away to the cliff of the void...
Zizek concisely states that:
"It is not how can we reach the true reality beyond appearance, but how can appearance emerge in reality."
What I am trying to state is something that is really analogous to the mystery of the functioning of the eyes; where it is a matter of transmutation rather than a translation from exteriority to the interior realm of the mind...
My thesis is simple: ideas do exist in a realm of their own (which we could not tap into), but the only way we can grasp it is by a transmutative process of what Nietzsche argued in stripping away all relational objects from the object in order to examine it, or what Kafka beautifully managed to suspend the normal sense-making laws where everything moves in a life of its own, in a teleological structure, slowly drifting away to the cliff of the void...
I have yet to sophisticate my argument more, but as a civil engineer, as a guy who was destroyed by the Kafka prose, and as a guy who experimented with hallucigens who knows there is much more not than to what the eyes can see but to what the mind can perceive I am laying down the premises to what I know to be true...