Sublime

Solidarity with others in meaningful actions loses its creative character if one no longer wishes to be anything different from the others.

Paul is evangelized by the act of ministry, by a minister sharing in his broken person. Paul must give himself over to the new narrative shape of Christ; he must have faith that this new narrative is the constitution of reality—that indeed from death comes life.

Freud’s work is best read as a long elegy for the intelligibility of our lives. We make sense of our lives in order to be free not to have to make sense.

Making sense of one’s beliefs is a felt need only once practices have become the first realities.

The short answer is that once rationality takes over, a profound inversion takes place: truth ceases to be a claim made upon us, and becomes a claim we make on behalf of our assertions.

Ainsi se succèdent les essais nouveaux de rédaction, les reprises des mêmes formules, les variations sans fin sur les mêmes thèmes – ceux d'Épictète. Il s'agit de réactualiser, de rallumer, de réveiller sans cesse un état intérieur qui risque sans cesse de s'assoupir et de s'éteindre. Toujours, à nouveau, il s'agit de remettre en ordre un discours

The self is – one might say – what the past is doing now, it is the process in which a particular set of ‘given’ events and processes and options crystallizes now in a new set of particular options, responses and determinations, providing a resource of given past-ness out of which the next decision and action can flow. It is continuity; and so it i

is using the Hebrew past to give depth to the Hebrew present and enable it to face the Hebrew future.

Joyce is clearly both exemplary and representative for Lacan for how we can do new things with words; and this has something to do with aliveness.