Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Three lines from Merleau-Ponty & One from Borges

The notes that would have composed the final part of The Visible and the Invisible compose some of the most enticing moments in the text because MMP makes phenomenology dialogue with (Lacanian) psychoanalysis, making it very weird indeed. 

We were a flux of individual Erlebnisse, whereas we are [now] a field of Being.  Even in the present, the landscape is a configuration.

The "associations" of psychoanalysis are in reality "rays" of time and of the world.

This evening, I chased MMP with the short Manual de la zoología fantástica by Borges and Margarita Guerrero.  The Manual intentionally leaves out the werewolf or lobisón because they morph from mankind.  B & G are interested in the infinite splicing up of Being by the human imagination.  Where does it take us?

Según el prólogo:

Ignoramos [los humanos] el sentido del dragón, como ignoramos el sentido del universo, pero algo hay en su imagen que concuerda con la imaginación de los hombres, y así el dragón surge en distintas latitudes y edades.

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