Secularized notion of infinity
Death Drive: this drive is inhibited as to its aim, part of this drive is to prevent itself from attaining its ultimate aim: death
The satisfaction of the drive through the very inhibition of its aim is the very definition of sublimation.
33: the psychoanalytic theory of Freud replaces [Kant’s] transcendental forms with empty, nonobjectifiable objects, the objects of the drive.
39: “But that’s what I like about them, that they come that way” Jasper Johns
There could not be a better description of drive/sublimation: it so wills what occurs that the object it finds is indistinguishable from the one it chooses.