/lit/ - Literature

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the Great Work metaphor isn't even a forced reading. Angels are the sons of the masculine Adam/Kaworu, humanity of the feminine Rei/Lilith, and their reconciliation is what births a God (and in fact the actual stated goal of the FAR). recall Shinji's final conversation with Kaworu and Rei, where they say they are the words "I love you" and represent the hope for a better tomorrow, an end to the cycle of generation and dissolution.

it's only through the reconciliation between the centered, active masculine individuality and its dependency on a feminized Other to keep itself from imploding into an autistic ourobouric black hole that this condition can be healed.

in a way the series is more hopeful than shinji breaking down crying at the end will lead you to believe. there is a Way Out that isn't a defeatist slinking back into the womb, we just haven't figured it out yet. the only way out is through. the game has to be played because there is nothing but the game. you weren't made to play it, it made you to play itself. you have no existence outside its arena, its victories (joy, fulfillment, love and friendship) can't be uncoupled from this playing, which is what shinji thinks instrumentality can provide but ultimately fails.

in a way eva is a bit Nietzschean, man is a creature of the earth, the ether is not his home, the soil is, his joys are only immanent joys

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i worded that awkwardly, the mortalists don't recognize a center or a "witnessing", they think it all goes. of course my persona will go, but my "center" of witnessing will not. it'll eventually collapse the Void into Something again. what's my proof? it already fucking happened.