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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About Roland Barthes
Barthes is perhaps best known for his 1957 essay collection Mythologies, which contained reflections on popular culture, and the 1967/1968 essay "The Death of the Author," which critiqued traditional approaches in literary criticism. During his academic career he was primarily associated with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Collège de France.