"Must we conclude that sexuality is the only fantastic principle able to bring about the deviation of the world from the rigorous economic order assigned by the origin?" (303)
"If it is true that neurosis is the negative of perversion, would not perversion, for its part, be the elemental aspect of neurosis." (304)
"The pervert is not someone who desires, but someone who introduces desire into an eintirely different system and makes it play, within the system, the role of an internal limit, a virtual center or zero point." (304) Essentially, introducing a new (pre-individual) singularity.
Page 305: Without the Other, I am groundless. The Other is the button in the sofa holding the stuffing in place.
"[The Other] makes things incline toward one another and find their natural complements in one another." (306)
Page 306: On the origins of narcissism. Without the Other, "Everywhere I am not total darkness reigns."
Page 306: On why things bang.
Page 307: There is a generalized relativity of others.
"The Other...is the expression of a possible world." (308) D talks of Proust perceiving Albertine on the beach and what it meant to him and what would it mean to her if she had seen him. (308) This is exactly the point made earlier between language and bodies: That the structure, the geophilosophy of the real, any arrangement of bodies (the scaled up version of one body perceiving (an)other) will benefit from decoding (as with a hieroglyph) because entire worlds are enclosed in these perceptions; to have viewed this person on this day says something more than just our subjective reaction -- there is a structurality to the real which is both beyond us and demarcated in our very own DNA. It is in this "reading" of the real that we find that we are co-extensive with everything around us (e.g. Robinson's goat Friday, "Everything is Everything", the foot fetishist finding real amorous love in a foot, etc.).
Page 308: The crucial split between monism and dualism, the basis for the split between Deleuze and Lacan-Hegel, univocality vs. dialecticism, etc.
Page 310: Annihilation of subject by object and vice-versa means the inversion of the gyre within the Pascal diagram. There is a moment of immanence in that annihilation, however.
Page 311: During immanence, "error", the remainder, has been reduced to zero. The GCD is common to two numbers simultaneously. Madness is where one is immanently connected to everything.
Page 311: Inability to find the cracked-ness in ourselves --> Groundhog Day.
"The desert isle initiates a straightening out and a generalized erection." (312) The process of the eternal return. The gyre, the black hole, at first breaks the world down chaotically, but is then productive, poetic.
Page 312: On doubling and the Event; the elemental generative act of the multiplicity.
On the GCD/BwO/"liberated double": "The new upright [rectified] image in which the elements are released and renewed, having become celestial and forming a thousand capricious elemental figures." (312) Compare this to the constellation, Bush I's "thousand points of light", "an arrow aimed at a heart", etc. This double is like a gateway, a black hole to another dimension: "It is as if the entire earth were trying to escape by way of the island." (312) Via the event, the constellation changes from a 2-dimensional picture into a 1-dimensional line (the straight-line labyrinth, "vertical without thickness", the Red Queen). It becomes an "upright organization as opposed to a recumbent organization". (313) The "detachment of the pure element" is of course the Aion. (313) This event, though productive and affirmative, can also be associated with catastrophe, an apocalypse of meaning, "everything has lost its sense". (313, 315) Liberation comes with catastrophe, a release from the torrid depths and a "return to [and discovery of] the surface," a rediscovery of the jouissance of (pure) immanence. (315)
Page 314: On hylomorphism.
Page 315: On the tradeoffs of depth and breadth and of their seemingly incongruous transmogrification between each state.
Page 317: The Double as seen as an extension of the Self.
Pure immanence (the discovery of the surface) is "a world without Others," "a world without the possible," for everything is (magically, euphorically, painfully) Real. (319, 321)
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