Roland Barthes Quote
…This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the subject (since Christianity) is the one who suffers: where there is a wound, there is a subject: die Wunde! die Wunde! says Parsifal, thereby becoming himself; and the deeper the wound, at the body’s center (at the heart), the more the subject becomes a subject: for the subject is intimacy (The wound…is of a frightful intimacy). Such is love’s wound: a radical chasm (at the roots of being), which cannot be closed, and out of which the subject drains, constituting himself as a subject in this very draining. from_A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments_. Translated by Richard Howard, p. 189
Roland Barthes
…This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the subject (since Christianity) is the one who suffers: where there is a wound, there is a subject: die Wunde! die Wunde! says Parsifal, thereby becoming himself; and the deeper the wound, at the body’s center (at the heart), the more the subject becomes a subject: for the subject is intimacy (The wound…is of a frightful intimacy). Such is love’s wound: a radical chasm (at the roots of being), which cannot be closed, and out of which the subject drains, constituting himself as a subject in this very draining. from_A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments_. Translated by Richard Howard, p. 189
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