| Popis: |
This chapter examines three configurations of hallucination through their similarities and differences. Similarities relate to the psychoanalytical approach—with the notion of the unconscious at its core—of repetition and destruction, through which I examine the processes of construction of a hallucinated surreality in each case. Repetition is felt as a vital constraint and as such is akin to a compulsion founded on inexhaustible anxiety (because constantly fueled). This anxiety is triggered by the constant threat of disappearance and death by a malevolent force, of enemies obsessed with annihilation. Differences relate to History perceived in light of the double aspect of the Western reason, when it defines it first as the negative side of that of which reason would be the positive, in the fullness of discourse, science and art; and as the Other of Reason—reason being understood as “common sense” from which this Other would be substantively different. |
