The absolute that is not absolute: an alchemical reflection on the caput mortuum, the dark other of logical light

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanton Marlan
Keyword(s):  
Dark Light ◽  
Object A ◽  
Thing In Itself ◽  
The Absolute

ABSTRACTThis paper challenges Wolfgang Giegerich’s sometimes sophisticated and at other times sophistic notion of absolute negative interiority. In contrast to his uroboric view of ‘psychology proper’, this author resists the successionist ideas of a post-Jungian, trans-human perspective and asserts the notion of an unassimilable and unsurmountable ‘not’. In this paper, the author revisions the traditional divide between Kant and Hegel, taking the ‘thing-in-itself’ as truly other than existing only for consciousness and arguing against privileging theunityof unity and difference. This paper entertains the alchemical ideas of a residue, acaput mortuum, and an archetypally cumbersome object, a real limit, which remains and unhinges the elevating process of spirit on its path to return to itself in absolute interiority. Rather, it acknowledges an abyss ‘behind the back of consciousness’, a non-reified living unconscious – a dark light, an absolute that is not absolute, but rather a gateway back to the beyond, at the root of imagination, wonder, and transformation.

„Das ubersinnliche Substrat aller seiner Vermogen“

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
Martin Bunte ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Critical Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Thing In Itself ◽  
Correct Reading ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Absolute Knowledge

This paper examines the underdetermined relation between the absolute and absolute knowledge. Fichte not only claimed that he provided the correct reading of Kant’s critical philosophy but also that his Wissenschaftslehre constructively addressed and resolved its systematic problems. By discussing Kant’s notion of a “transcendental substrate” and its relation to the “thing-in-itself” it will be shown that this claim has to be taken seriously even from a Kantian standpoint. Moreover, it will be shown that Fichte's critical assessment of Kant's philosophy at the beginning of his second private lecture on the Wissenschaftslehre given in Berlin in 1804 and his philosophical reflection of the highest principle of all knowing and its relation to the absolute can be understood as a solution to problems that historically originated with Kant and were left unsettled by him.

scholarly journals Idea of Time in Bergson’s Lectures

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 432-444
Author(s):  
Andrey Sergeevich Menshikov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Intuitive Knowledge ◽  
Continuous Processes ◽  
Problem Of Time ◽  
Thing In Itself ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fundamental Transformation ◽  
Lecture Courses ◽  
The Absolute

The article focuses on two lecture courses - The Idea of time and The History of the Idea of Time - delivered by the French philosopher Henri Bergson at Collge de France in 1901-1903. While these courses cannot replace Bergsons published works for understanding his philosophy, they can shed new light on Bergsons popularity. Due to the requirements of the genre, Bergson presents his views in a most succinct and convincing manner and showcases his most original ideas. In these lectures Bergson reinterprets traditional philosophical categories such as the absolute and the relative, the infinite and the finite, and explores two major modes of cognition - conceptual and intuitive knowledge. Major thrust of Bergsons arguments is targeted at conceptual cognition because it is incapable of grasping the duration. Conceptual cognition relies on signs to operate representations of reality. Bergson demonstrates that signs, including concepts, are general, fixating and they appeal to action. Conceptual cognition, therefore, is based on fragmenting continuous processes in reality. However, when discussing intuitive cognition Bergson provides but an outline by referring to intellectual sympathy, plunging into the thing in itself. Despite this apophatic description of the alternative - intuitive - mode of cognition Bergson insists on fundamental transformation of philosophy. We conclude that already in the early 1900s Bergson has in mind an entire project of reconstituting metaphysics and reorienting it towards the problem of time, what might be described as temporal turn in philosophy of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals O problema da intuição intelectual enquanto postulado prático em Fichte [The problem of intellectual intuition as a practical postulate in Fichte]

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (43) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Arthur Martins Cecim
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Theoretical Reason ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
Intellectual Intuition ◽  
Thing In Itself ◽  
The Absolute

Na Modernidade, o idealista alemão Fichte reconstrói o conceito de intuição intelectual não mais em termos de um procedimento teórico-reflexivo que visa o conhecimento da pretensa coisa-em-si, mas em termos de uma intuição de cunho prático, a partir do conceito kantiano de postulado prático, o que acaba por refletir a primazia da liberdade da razão prática sobre a razão teórica, tendo em vista a impossibilidade de conhecermos as realidades absolutas. Não obstante, essa intuição é problemática por não tratar de uma realidade objetiva, mas tão somente de uma subjetividade autorreflexiva.[In Modernity, the German idealist Fichte reconstructs the intellectual intuition not in terms of a theoretical-reflexive procedure that aims at the pretense knowledge of the thing-in-itself, but in terms of a practical-oriented intuition, from the Kantian concept of practical postulate, which ultimately reflects the priority of freedom in the practical reason over the theoretical reason, taking into account the impossibility of knowing the absolute realities. Nevertheless, this intuition is problematic, for it does not concern an objective reality, but only a self-reflected subjectivity]

scholarly journals Dark Light, Rod Saturation, and the Absolute and Incremental Sensitivity of Mouse Cone Vision

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (37) ◽  
pp. 12495-12507 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Naarendorp ◽  
T. M. Esdaille ◽  
S. M. Banden ◽  
J. Andrews-Labenski ◽  
O. P. Gross ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Light ◽  
The Absolute

On the Accessibility of the Thing-in-itself: Kant’s Transcendentalism and Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism

2021 ◽  
pp. 138-147
Author(s):  
Fedor I. Girenok ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Thing In Itself ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Positive Knowledge

Modern philosophy has shown an unexpected interest in materialism. Why is materialism attractive? Perhaps because of the simplicity of thought, or be­cause of the direct discernment of the truth? Among the new materialists stands out the figure of Meillassoux, who tried to justify the need to move from transcendental and phenomenological idealism to speculative material­ism. But the interest in materialism is even more unexpected among young russian researchers who became volunteers of speculative materialism without hesitation. What attracts them to materialism? The answer to this question can be obtained by analyzing the philosophy of Meillassoux. This article examines the speculative materialism of Meillassoux. His idea of contingency is com­pared with Kant’s idea of productive imagination a priori. As a result, the author concludes that Meillassoux has not found the answer to the question why laws are constant. The absolutization of factuality, on which Meillassoux insists, does not give positive knowledge about the absolute. The inconsistency of Meillassoux is that the absolute is always preceded by an anthropological process of absolutization. The author concludes that speculative materialism attracts by its theoretical simplicity, which, in turn, is based on the full and merciless deprivation the world of anthropological dimension. In the material­ism of K. Meillassoux, an inescapable longing for the absolute is expressed. The speculative materialists want to restore space and time to nature with the help of the absolute, forgetting that the dif­ference between things in them­selves and things for themselves is not based on the absolutization of time, but on the presence of subjectivity. Meillassoux refused subjectivity. He chose the absolute. For him, the subject of philosophy is not the existence of a per­son, but a certain “may-be”.

scholarly journals SOBRE O ESQUECIMENTO INESQUECÍVEL DA VOZ DO OUTRO: SUPEREU, OBJETO VOZ E MÚSICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (30) ◽  
pp. 144-173
Author(s):  
Lucas Emmanoel Cardoso de Oliveira ◽  
Marcus André Viera
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Mots Clés ◽  
Object A ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
The Absolute

 ResumoO presente artigo tem como objetivo apresentar o objeto voz na psicanálise. Verificamos que a manifestação eminente do objeto voz é a incidência das vozes do supereu, o qual não está referido à Lei, mas ao gozo exigido pelo Outro absoluto, revelando-se na vociferação no sujeito neurótico acometido pelo destilhaçamento fantasístico, e na alucinação do sujeito psicótico. Nesse sentido, apreendemos a experiência com as vozes do supereu como o elo indicativo da fraternidade entre neurose e psicose. Diante disso, e para ambos os casos, pudemos sugerir que a música, envolvida no trabalho de transferência, pode se colocar como um dispositivo para o esquecimento das vozes do supereu, ao mesmo tempo em que, também com a música, se reafirma o quão inesquecível foi entrar no gozo com o Outro. Palavras-chave: objeto a; supereu; objeto voz; música.ResumenEl presente artículo tiene como objetivo presentar el objeto voz en el psicoanálisis. Comprobamos que la manifestación eminente del objeto voz es la incidencia de las voces del superyó, el cual no está referido a la Ley, sino al goce exigido por el Otro absoluto, revelándose en la vociferación en el sujeto neurótico acometido por el despedazamiento fantástico y en la alucinación del sujeto psicótico. En este sentido, entendemos la experiencia con las voces del superyó como el eslabón indicativo de la fraternidad entre neurosis y psicosis. Ante esto, y para ambos casos, podemos sugerir que la música, implicada en el trabajo de transferencia, puede usarse como un dispositivo para el olvido de las voces del superyó, al mismo tiempo que, también con la música, se reafirma cuán inolvidable fue entrar en el goce con el Otro. Palabras clave: objeto a; superyó; objeto voz; música.  AbstractThis paper aims at presenting the object voice in psychoanalysis. We verify that the eminent manifestation of the object voice is the effect of the voices of the superego, which is not related to Law, but to the jouissance demanded by the absolute Other, revealing in the shouting in the neurotic subject assailed by the fantastic tearing and in the hallucination of the psychotic subject. In this sense, we understand the experience with the voices of superego as the link indicative of the fraternity between neurosis and psychosis. For both cases, we suggest that music, involved in the transference work, may be used as a device to forget the voices of the superego, and, at the same time, with music too, it is reaffirmed how unforgettable was the entrance in the jouissance with the Other. Keywords: object a, superego, object voice, music. RésuméCet article a pour but de présenter l'objet voix dans la psychanalyse. L'on constate que la manifestation éminente de l'objet voix est l'incidence des voix du surmoi. Celui-ci ne se réfère pas à la Loi, mais à la jouissance exigée par l'Autre absolu, qui se manifeste en la vocifération chez le sujet névrosé assailli par le déchirement fantastique, et en l'hallucination chez le sujet psychotique. Dans ce sens, l'expérience avec les voix du surmoi apparaît ici en tant que maillon indicatif de la fraternité entre névrose et psychose. Pour les deux cas, l'on suggère que la musique impliquée dans le travail de transfert peut être utilisée en tant que dispositif pour l'oubli des voix du surmoi et que, en même temps, elle réaffirme le caractère inoubliable du fait de renter dans la jouissance avec l'Autre. Mots-clés : objet a, surmoi, objet voix, musique.

Reconstruction of Objects from their Projections Using Orthogonal Functions

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 268-269
Author(s):  
Elrnar Zeitler
Keyword(s):  
Unit Area ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Spatial Density ◽  
Dimensional Representation ◽  
Orthogonal Functions ◽  
Object A ◽  
Plane Normal ◽  
Dimensional Object ◽  
Spatial Density Distribution

Considering any finite three-dimensional object, a “projection” is here defined as a two-dimensional representation of the object's mass per unit area on a plane normal to a given projection axis, here taken as they-axis. Since the object can be seen as being built from parallel, thin slices, the relation between object structure and its projection can be reduced by one dimension. It is assumed that an electron microscope equipped with a tilting stage records the projectionWhere the object has a spatial density distribution p(r,ϕ) within a limiting radius taken to be unity, and the stage is tilted by an angle 9 with respect to the x-axis of the recording plane.

Bulk standards for low-temperature biological x-ray microanalysis

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 282-283
Author(s):  
P. Echlin ◽  
M. McKoon ◽  
E.S. Taylor ◽  
C.E. Thomas ◽  
K.L. Maloney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Separation ◽  
Low Temperature ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Salt Solutions ◽  
Absolute Concentration ◽  
Cooling Process ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Analytical Procedures ◽  
Electrical Conductors

Although sections of frozen salt solutions have been used as standards for x-ray microanalysis, such solutions are less useful when analysed in the bulk form. They are poor thermal and electrical conductors and severe phase separation occurs during the cooling process. Following a suggestion by Whitecross et al we have made up a series of salt solutions containing a small amount of graphite to improve the sample conductivity. In addition, we have incorporated a polymer to ensure the formation of microcrystalline ice and a consequent homogenity of salt dispersion within the frozen matrix. The mixtures have been used to standardize the analytical procedures applied to frozen hydrated bulk specimens based on the peak/background analytical method and to measure the absolute concentration of elements in developing roots.

A Quantitative Ultrastructural Study of Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Containing Parallel Tubular Arrays in Epstein-Barr Virus and Cytomegalo-Virus Mononucleosis

1981 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
C. M. Payne ◽  
P. M. Tennican
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Lymphocyte Count ◽  
Epstein Barr Virus ◽  
Absolute Lymphocyte Count ◽  
Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes ◽  
Clinical State ◽  
Barr Virus ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Epstein Barr ◽  
Tubular Arrays

In the normal peripheral circulation there exists a sub-population of lymphocytes which is ultrastructurally distinct. This lymphocyte is identified under the electron microscope by the presence of cytoplasmic microtubular-like inclusions called parallel tubular arrays (PTA) (Figure 1), and contains Fc-receptors for cytophilic antibody. In this study, lymphocytes containing PTA (PTA-lymphocytes) were quantitated from serial peripheral blood specimens obtained from two patients with Epstein -Barr Virus mononucleosis and two patients with cytomegalovirus mononucleosis. This data was then correlated with the clinical state of the patient.It was determined that both the percentage and absolute number of PTA- lymphocytes was highest during the acute phase of the illness. In follow-up specimens, three of the four patients' absolute lymphocyte count fell to within normal limits before the absolute PTA-lymphocyte count.In one patient who was followed for almost a year, the absolute PTA- lymphocyte count was consistently elevated (Figure 2). The estimation of absolute PTA-lymphocyte counts was determined to be valid after a morphometric analysis of the cellular areas occupied by PTA during the acute and convalescent phases of the disease revealed no statistical differences.

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