#cf.otherness

The intolerable Other is pleasure in today's society.

To know that one does not write for the other, that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love, to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not - this is the beginning of writing.

What Hegel calls “pure self-recognition in absolute otherness,” is called by Todd McGowan "a recognition that one’s identity exists outside oneself in the object that appears most other to oneself"

We come across the Real…when we identify with the Real in the Other -…when we recognize…our own hindrance…, in the hindrance…because of which the Other failed.

In our unconscious use of arts we have to go outside ourselves to get back inside.