Sublime

Se trata de algo que se sitúa en este movimiento de elaboración de aquello que para el sujeto se sitúa como un real imposible de simbolizar. Y esto es algo que de algún modo hay que preservar, no aplastar eso con un saber que promete dar sentido a todo lo que surge.

Employing analysis, which works from the outside of its object, without listening to intuition, which inhabits the matter at hand from the inside, is like looking for the power of a poem in the translation, where it cannot be found, and then when one cannot find it, denying it was there in the original.

Comme il arrive souvent, une idée en l’air avait malgré tout germé dans l’esprit de celui qui en chérissait l’exécution, tandis que le semeur de projet, lui, ignorait jusqu’au souvenir de l’ensemencement.

‘In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.’

Le propos de Freud, en 1910, est proprement révolutionnaire : il y a un rapport entre le petit enfant inhibé, amoureux transi de sa mère, marqué par un refoulement excessivement fort de certaines pulsions, et le grand artiste, enfanteur de chefs-d’œuvre.

Marcel’s ‘shell’ recalls Husserl’s notion of the accumulated and inflexible preconceptions that one should set aside in the epoché, so as to open up access to the ‘things themselves’. In both cases, what is rigid is cleared away, and the trembling freshness of what is underneath becomes the object of the philosopher’s attention. For Marcel, learnin

Always remember that a house is only a territory our awareness can enter and within which it can express itself. Some of those territories are visible. Some are invisible. They still answer the question where.

Atrás de grades que não podemos derrubar porque não estão fora de nós, mas em nós.