Today I'll be sharing with you some thoughts I've being carrying with me for some time.
I've been absent a while. I'm back...or?
What that's it even mean to BE? physically? Being is something inevitable, we can't choose not to be, even if we think we can, we will always be. Being it's a dynamic, analogical succession of states; always changing, evolving, adapting and responding to a bunch of other "beings" entities. The concept is so abstract, that we, as humans beings, try to simplify it by adding a escort of adjetives to it: being happy, being alone, being tired, being someone...
An essential part of being is the consciousness of being. The consciousness, term deeply studied by Hegel, is in the first place a feeling, then it's perception and finally the acceptation of the two first followed by the understanding of the state.
The sensible consciousness, described by Hegel as the immediate perception of an external object, is an extremely fragile concept. The immediate character of an object, can only happen on that precise moment and on that precise space. Therefore, that object only exist as long as we perceive it; and this perception will disappear, by concept, as soon as we name the object, as soon as we identify it, as soon as we understand that the objet we see (feel) and perceive is, indeed, partially only existing in our head.
It is really interesting the way we relate with the external media. The absolute need of assigning names to every single objet we perceive, and to posses it, leads me to think about the concept of Castration of Lacan. The object of desire that emerges as a result of symbolic castration that Lacan calls the objet petit a. The object contains something hidden as a result of a metonymic displacement of the subject’s attempt to be ‘the object of the desire of the other. The objet petit a presents a figurative embodiment of the lack that must be ascribed to the Other, and thus, plugs the gap the subject perceives in the construction of the foundations of the symbolic order by giving it imaginary form. Therefore, we could say that all human desire is based on castration. For instance, in one sense, fantasy and desire are a defense mechanism against castration, but in another sense, they also serve as compensation for submission to symbolic castration by opening out a field of new objects.
To be continued
S