The Object of Desire and the Totality of the Real
All that is of no help whatever, for suddenly, from having been a thinking being, he becomes a feeling one, a plaything of phantoms against which even the sharpest reason is a powerless weapon. Those are factors we take care to deny because they arere unreliable. But in the moment.of experience all denial is futile; then every unknown is possessed
... See moreCould he really have meant to write such a work? Less the outcome of serious research than of vague, metaphysical intuitions: the eternal conflict between chaos and form.