Rex Butler Slavoj Žižek: Live Theory. London: Continuum. 2005
Materialism is to be found in that moment when he admits that God is not eternally given but has as it were to posit Himself, contract Himself out of some obscure impenetrable “ground” … Schelling is concerned not with the problem of how to pass from the perfect to the imperfect, how God enters the world, but on the contrary with the problem of how to pass from the imperfect to the perfect, how God arises in the first place. Schelling’s crucial realization is that God is imperfect, that there is always something missign from Him: a gap that might be understood as the human itself. 9