Sunday, January 4, 2015


        Psychological color of my sacred.  I place the accent on the forbidden, the taboo, the reserved.  Attitude of refusal, of folding in on the self.  I need a sacred, but -- for lack of virility -- I make of it a circumscribed, separate domain, impossible to penetrate.  Negative idea of purity.  Always nostalgia -- constructed in the object of desire, or of regret -- never passion, which tends to seize, leading to the destruction of the desiring subject or desired object.  Position of witness: he who places himself -- fearfully or respectfully -- at the edge, but on the outside of, the sacred.  

  From "Notes on the Sacred in Everyday Life"             

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