The nearest kind of association is not mere perceptual cognition, but, rather, a handling, using, and taking care of things which has its own kind of 'knowledge.'
from Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
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The Oedipal Prism: Circumspection of the World and Entities Within-the-world
In accordance with what has been already formerly expressed, the three psychotic structures of poiesis, genesis, and sinthome are reflective surfaces on the exteriority of the Oedipal prism. On its interior sides, one can see from inside it the three paralellogrammic symbolizations, castration–frustration, castration–privation, and frustration–privation, also called the square of sinthome. Therefore, the switching around of the object and the agent of a specific moment, as it relates to another moment and thereby forms an alternate symbolization, is a figurative representation of the workings of geometric reflection in visual logic, and not a literal occurrence.
However, the exterior of the prism’s three sides bear a real relation to the existence of the phallus, and the reversals of the moments of castration, frustration, and privation, which form the prism's exterior symbolizations, have seemingly magnetic attraction to it. This “attraction” might be best discovered in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, in the section titled “16. How the Worldly Character of the Environment Announces itself in Entities Within-the-world”. (pp. 102-107).
The danger here lies, of course, in one we are often cautioned against, namely making Heidegger's ontology into a Lacanian one. But Heidegger also makes for us a fundamental sense of castration as being “pre-ontological understanding”, and as being a “pre-phenomenological glimpse of this phenomenon” of “Being-in-the-world” (pg. 102). One can ostensibly show how the phallus does this for castration, in the form(s) of “conspicuousness” (pg. 102), “obtrusiveness” (pg. 103), and “obstinacy” (pg.103). Additionally one can show how it causes this attraction for privation, in “‘inconspicuousness’, ‘unobtrusiveness’, and ‘non-obstinacy’” (pg. 106).
Previously, the associations between psychoanalysis and Heidegger's ontology have perhaps been merely grasped “thematically”, as Heidegger dubs it, if objects are only ever considered as “equipment ready-to-hand to be encountered in its ‘Being-in-itself’” (pg.106).
Therefore, this passage not only constitutes a vital turning point in the analytic of Dasein for understanding its relationship to phenomena, but also helps to make and understand what is visually logical into mechanisms that are more purely figurative, and conducive to psychoanalytic treatment. Which is to say, even blindness is no obstacle to grasping visual logic, using what Heidegger calls a “non-thematic circumspective absorption” (pg. 107).
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Is it still to be asked? Is it still to be asked how time appears on the basis of this genesis of space? In a certain way it is always too late to pose the question of time.
Jacques Derrida, “Ousia and Grammē: Note on a Note from Being and Time,” in The Margins of Philosophy (1972), trans. Alan Bass
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i feel like a lot of the 'i hate kids' crowd would be more tolerant if they understood that due to a kid's limited experience of the world that 4 hour flight might just be the longest they've ever had to sit still for or that trapped finger might literally be the most pain they've ever felt in their short life or they might not have ever seen a person with pink hair ever so of course they want to touch it or nobody's told them yet that they can't run around the museum and they only just learned cheetahs are the fastest animals so of course they want to put that to the test. how were they supposed to know etc etc.
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raise a glass to the posts you love that end up deleted. to the fanart and fanfics you lose track of and can't locate. to the blogs you used to look through that ended up unexpectedly disappearing. to the things you didn't archive because you always assumed they'd be there.
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I'm sorry if you're tired of thinking about ofmd and that whole mess but goddamn... it's incredibly painful to see so many people trying to set up fundraisers to get their families out of gaza and the sudan and desperately trying to get their loved ones to safety, I've seen so many and everyday I check to see how much progress they've made, most of them still haven't hit their goal. It hurts to see people rally around a tv show and raise all this money for a billboard, and it's very frustrating to see how people have reacted to this criticism. Like bro tv shows get canceled sometimes there's more important stuff going on
Someone else said it better but to see a fundraiser for tv show renewal advertisements raise $20,000 in less than a day while it takes days/weeks/months/years/never for fundraisers for actual causes that help real people in need reach a goal of less is absolutely dystopian and shameful
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