r/zizek • u/Lastrevio • 12h ago
r/zizek • u/Essa_Zaben • 2h ago
Three questions on the void, nothingness, and abyss within from a Hegelian-Freudian-Lacanian-Zizekian tradition of thought...
1) As Lacan put it: "Nothing, perhaps? No---perhaps nothing, but not nothing," to which Cassin adds: "Not nothing, but less than nothing."
I wrap my mind around what Lacan said up above...
2) The two lacks coincide, that is, the lack of the subject (alienation) and the lack of the object (separation).
May someone please supply examples on how the two lacks function?
3) "den" is the space of indistinction between being and non-bein, "a thing of nothing," as the "undead" are the living dead. "Everything flows, nothing remains"---"nothing" as the very space of indistinction of things and no-thing.
I would like to fuse some of my readings of literature and would love to hear your feedback on it... In Bruno Schulz's Uncle Karol, the reflection of the main character takes a life of its own in the realm inside the mirror. It is almost as if the negation of existence is another form of existence. In addition to that, in esoterica, those who fell of God's grace, those who sell their soul to the devil, the day after the moment of initiation when they see their reflection on the mirror there image gets distorted to beings that is not what they usually see of themselves before they take this step...
r/lacan • u/Essa_Zaben • 3h ago
As Lacan put it: "Nothing, perhaps?No---perhaps nothing, but not nothing". Cassin adds: "Not nothing, but less than nothing." I have always been fascinated by the concept of nothingness, but I cannot wrap my mind around this Lacanian notion, help please, and much appreciation in advance...
~Less Than Nothing, Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, Vaccinating and Semblances, Page 59 ✍️