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of the subject asymptotically, whatever the success of the dialectical syntheses by which he must resolve as I his discordance with his own reality.
The religious experience is that ecstatic, jolting, wondrous, awe-struck, life-changing mind-boggling confrontation with
one or all of the eight basic mysteries of existence. The goal of an intelligent life, according to socrates, is
to pursue the philosophic quest to increase one's knowledge of self and world. Now there is an
important division of labor involved in the philosophic search. Religion, being personal and private,
cannot produce answers to the eight basic questions.
Link The oedipal complex being the means by which we achieve our identity, transcends all social
convention. The failings of education and religion are in fact the failings of the oedipal complex;
Society is the entrenchment of the self, created by the oedipal complex, through the means of
dialectics1. Therefore, Oedipus has crippled us as a species and made us incapable of anything other
than mediocrity and microfascism.
Subpoint B: (Unknown. 600 BC. The Tao Te Chin)
When the Way is lost, there remains harmony;
When harmony is lost, there remains love;
When love is lost, there remains justice;
But when justice is lost, there remains ritual.
Ritual is the end of compassion and honesty,
The beginning of confusion;
Belief is a colourful hope or fear,
The beginning of folly.
The sage goes by harmony, not by hope;
He dwells in the fruit, not the flower;
He accepts substance, and ignores abstraction.
THUS, WHEN THERE IS A LACK OF HARMONY AND FLOWING IN OEDIPALIZED,
CAPITALIST SOCIETY, AND THE LACK OF THE BODY WITHOUT ORGANS, ORDER AND
CONVENTION COMES INTO PLAY CREATING MICROFASCISM IN ITS MOST EXTREME
CIRCUMSTANCES.
Where
psychoanalysis says, "Stop, find your self again," we should say instead, "Let's go further
still, we haven't found our BwO yet, we haven't sufficiently dismantled our self." Substitute
forgetting for anamnesis, experimentation for interpretation . Find your body without organs. Find out how
to make it. It's a question of life and death, youth and old age, sadness and joy. It is where everything is
Entity, the full Body, the stationary Voyage, Anorexia, cutaneous Vision, Yoga, Krishna, Love, Experimentation.
played out.
1807.
Self-consciousness has before it another self-consciousness; it has come outside itself. This has a
double significance. First it has lost its own self, since it finds itself as an other being; secondly, it has
thereby sublated that other, for it does not regard the other as essentially real, but sees its own self in
the other. It must cancel this its other. To do so is the sublation of that first double meaning, and is
therefore a second double meaning. First, it must set itself to sublate the other independent being, in
order thereby to become certain of itself as true being, secondly, it thereupon proceeds to sublate its
own self, for this other is itself. This sublation in a double sense of its otherness in a double sense is at
the same time a return in a double sense into its self. For, firstly, through sublation, it gets back itself,
because it becomes one with itself again through the cancelling of its otherness; but secondly, it
likewise gives otherness back again to the other self-consciousness, for it was aware of being in the
other, it cancels this its own being in the other and thus lets the other again go free.
Clarification on BwO:
The BwO is unachievable. Its essence is that is must be attempted to actualize, but never can. This
creates a process of becoming the BwO instead of being the BwO. Being is an expression of self while
becoming is an expression of the lack of a self and incompleteness. The BwO is disordered.
(Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. 1980. A Thousand Plateaus)
Why not walk on your head, sing with your sinuses, see through your skin, breathe
with your belly: the simple Thing, the Entity, the full Body, the stationary Voyage,
Anorexia, cutaneous Vision, Yoga, Krishna, Love, Experimentation.