"Dissolving Subject-Object Binaries: The Joys of Self-Forgetfulness"
"I forget myself, having found you as mine." (Sweet forgetfulness for Self-enjoyment! Subject-Object binaries dissolved.)
"Self-forgetfulness is a mode of self-enjoyment, a pleasure we take in our world, our property. But unselfishness, or duped egoism, forgets that the world is ours. It throws itself before a 'higher' world and wastes itself. True selflessness is not self-forgetfulness, but forgetting that the world is 'ours.' It is a cowardly, slavish form of egoism that denies itself and creeps about in fear."
This self-forgetfulness, this losing of oneself, is for us only a mode of self-enjoyment, it is only the pleasure we take in our world, in our property, i.e. world-pleasure. but in forgetting that the world is our world, that unselfishness, that is duped egoism, has its basis. You throw yourself down before a “higher,” absolute world and waste yourself. Unselfishness is not self-forgetfulness in the sense of no longer thinking of one-self and no longer being concerned with oneself, but in the other sense of forgetting that the world is “ours,” of forgetting that one is the center or owner of this world, that it is our property. Fear and timidity toward the world as a “higher” world is cowardly, “humble” egoism, egoism in its slavish form, which doesn’t dare to grumble, which secretly creeps about and “denies itself”; it is self-denial. #egois #hegelianism #idealism #egoism #materialism #lacan
