{"id":9650,"date":"2012-10-29T09:58:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T14:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=9650"},"modified":"2013-06-20T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:11:22","slug":"9650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/10\/29\/9650\/","title":{"rendered":"abyssal madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u017di\u017eek in <em>Parallax View<\/em> &#8220;&#8230; Ce Seul Objet Dont Le N\u00e9ant S&#8217;honore&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With this abyssal act of freedom,<strong> the subject breaks up the rotary movement of drives<\/strong>, this abyss of the Unnamable \u2013 in short, this deed is the very founding gesture of naming.<\/p>\n<p>Therein resides Schelling\u2019s unheard-of philosophical revolution: <span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold;\">he does not simply oppose the dark domain of the rotary movement of pre-ontological drives,<\/span> this unnamable Real which cannot ever be totally symbolized, <span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">to the domain of Logos, of articulated Word which cannot ever totally \u201cforce\u201d it<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(like Badiou, Schelling insists on how there is always a remainder of the unnamable Real \u2013 the \u201cindivisible remainder\u201d \u2013 which eludes symbolization);<\/p>\n<p>at its most radical, <span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold;\">the unnamable Unconscious is not external to Logos, it is not its obscure background, but, rather, the very act of Naming, the very founding gesture of Logos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green; font-weight: bold;\">The greatest contingency, the ultimate act of abyssal madness, is the very act of imposing a rational Necessity onto the pre-rational chaos of the Real.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u017di\u017eek in Parallax View &#8220;&#8230; Ce Seul Objet Dont Le N\u00e9ant S&#8217;honore&#8221; With this abyssal act of freedom, the subject breaks up the rotary movement of drives, this abyss of the Unnamable \u2013 in short, this deed is the very founding gesture of naming. Therein resides Schelling\u2019s unheard-of philosophical revolution: he does not simply oppose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/10\/29\/9650\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;abyssal madness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,16,15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drive","category-ontology","category-subjectivity","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11302,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions\/11302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}