/lit/ - Literature

>>11207362
>ay, the swerve and the return, that shatters its floors with every lust for a new one. incidentally, im reminded of michelstaedter's metaphor for a life, a weight infinitely falling, that exists only as the lust of being caught and released, caught and released, because it's true satisfaction would be the cessation of this movement. a desire for extinction that exists only as the movement that defers this extinction. what a goddamn shitshow.

i honestly think a great many people go and have gone through their lives in this very state of mingled desperation, terror, boredom, and loneliness. because they don't know what else to do. or because they do know what to do but don't do it. or any number of other human reasons. despair and modernity. then perhaps the same as now. i think it is exactly this way. and the crazy thing is that even if you read your nuts off you too still wind up being placed in these situations.

>suffering is just what dissolves our bonds to this world and reveals their nullity.

and *recognition* of suffering. *mutual recognition.* hegel really, really has his own kind of magic going on on this subject. the hegel-lacan bromance is a beautiful thing. psychoanalysis is a beautiful thing. crowbarring people out of the grip of the Big Other and picking those old locks containing god only knows what kind of horror and trauma is no fucking joke. to hell with communism, that's plenty.

>my go-tos are zizek, hegel, and theology when the going gets rough

cool. those guys are a hell of a posse for sure. my own deleuze phase came not long after my lacan phase and Less Than Nothing, so, who knows. maybe it will be the same for you. i only read deleuze because i thought - as i often do - well, since i'm so sure lacan has solved everything, i might as well just check this other guy...just to see what the fuss is about...i'm sure it's probably nothing...

and it's always like that. then you wind up jabbering about Guy X for the next six months or w/e and going, how the fuck did i not know about this before?!??!?!

continental philosophy really is great sometimes. it doesn't fix any of your fucking problems, it just makes you kind of more comfortable with being a complete and utter fucking mutant. there's no fucking escaping it so you might as well get cozy.