This is really well done, Cleo, and absolutely the embodiment of the intellectual milieu we hope to create here. Thanks for your very thoughtful and detailed engagement. The part of your work that gives me much to think through involves the following reflection:
"I will leave what are in this form somewhat puzzling teasers to lure you into listening to Last’s exposition of these points, and God forbid, perhaps even tackling Lacan’s Ecrits yourself, but let me just conclude by saying here that these three trajectories might be glossed by three points taken from the mainstream tradition of Christian theology: 1) God is Word and Word is more primary and powerful than we are; 2) all worldly identifications, with parents, with lovers, with children, with friends, are relative and relative to that self-emptying which is the precondition of all blessedness; and 3) claims to have found the truth path, the final closure, the Last Word, always fail before the ongoing eternal drive to know God."
That is really well done in relation to (1) the indestructible signifier, (2) self-relating negativity, and (3) the immortal drive. I will have to develop a response when I have had the time to think through how to connect these threads!
Thanks, Cadelll. Those analogies with Christian doctrine are interesting, I think, though of course it would be important to talk about the differences of register and intent.
This is really well done, Cleo, and absolutely the embodiment of the intellectual milieu we hope to create here. Thanks for your very thoughtful and detailed engagement. The part of your work that gives me much to think through involves the following reflection:
"I will leave what are in this form somewhat puzzling teasers to lure you into listening to Last’s exposition of these points, and God forbid, perhaps even tackling Lacan’s Ecrits yourself, but let me just conclude by saying here that these three trajectories might be glossed by three points taken from the mainstream tradition of Christian theology: 1) God is Word and Word is more primary and powerful than we are; 2) all worldly identifications, with parents, with lovers, with children, with friends, are relative and relative to that self-emptying which is the precondition of all blessedness; and 3) claims to have found the truth path, the final closure, the Last Word, always fail before the ongoing eternal drive to know God."
That is really well done in relation to (1) the indestructible signifier, (2) self-relating negativity, and (3) the immortal drive. I will have to develop a response when I have had the time to think through how to connect these threads!
Thanks, Cadelll. Those analogies with Christian doctrine are interesting, I think, though of course it would be important to talk about the differences of register and intent.
Amazing, thank you!
Word!