We read Paul in the way of “God is dead”, God is telling us “It’s up to you, I need your help.” So, to put it in very brutal terms, as Alain Badiou once told me in a conversation, the Holy Ghost is the Communist Party, it’s the community of believers

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in an apocalyptic time, that is to say, how to avoid the dilemma of either the old substantial community or dispersed liberal individualism.

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the others jouissance is insupportable for us because (and insofar as) we cannot find a proper way to relate to our own jouissance

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what is this feminine depression that suspends the causal link, the causal enchainment of our acts to external stimuli, if not the founding gesture of subjectivity, the primordial act of freedom, of breaking up our insertion into the nexus of causes and effects.

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[against the notion] of a deadened, lethargic woman aroused from her numbness by a man‘s call…, Lynch can be said to be a true anti-Weininger, [who was] the paradigm of anti-feminism… For Lynch, the “original fact” is… depression

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Man ‘bombards’ her with shocks in order to arouse her attention and thereby pull her out of her numbness - in short, in order to reinstate her in the ‘proper’ order of causality [unable to accept how subjectivity is void of order]

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in Weininger’s… anti-feminism,… man’s fascination with a woman results from his Fall

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