When life is a horror....Don't look like a ghost!
_This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the __ubject_ (since Christianity) is the one who suffers: where there is a wound, there is a subject: die Wunde! die Wunde! says Parsifal, thereby becoming __imself_; and the deeper the wound, at the body__ center (at the __eart_), the more the subject becomes a subject: for the subject is intimacy (__he wound_is of a frightful intimacy_). Such is love__ wound: a radical chasm (at the __oots_ of being), which cannot be closed, and out of which the subject drains, constituting himself as a subject in this very draining.___rom_A Lover__ Discourse: Fragments_. Translated by Richard Howard, p. 189
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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_This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the __ubject_ (since Christianity) is the one who suffers: where there is a wound, there is a subject: die Wunde! die Wunde! says Parsifal, thereby becoming __imself_; and the deeper the wound, at the body__ center (at the __eart_), the more the subject becomes a subject: for the subject is intimacy (__he wound_is of a frightful intimacy_). Such is love__ wound: a radical chasm (at the __oots_ of being), which cannot be closed, and out of which the subject drains, constituting himself as a subject in this very draining.___rom_A Lover__ Discourse: Fragments_. Translated by Richard Howard, p. 189
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