/lit/ - Literature

>Existential psychoanalysis is going to reveal to man the real goal of his pursuit, which is being as a synthetic fusion of the in-itself with the for itself; existential psychoanalysis is going to acquaint man with his passion.

>Money represents my strength; it is less a possession in itself than an instrument for possessing. That is why except in most unusual cases of avarice, money is effaced before its possibility for purchase; it is evanescent, it is made to unveil the object, the concrete thing; money has only a transitive being. But to me it appears as a creative force: to buy an object is a symbolic act which amounts to creating the object. That is why money is synonymous with power; not only because it is in fact capable of procuring for us what we desire, but especially because it represents the effectiveness of my desire as such. Precisely because it is transcended toward the thing, surpassed, and simply implied, it represents my magical bond with the object. Money suppresses the technical connection of subject and object and renders the desire immediately operative, like the magic wishes of fairy tales. Stop before a show case with money in your pocket; the objects displayed are already more than half yours. Thus money establishes a bond of appropriation between the for-itself and the total collection of objects in the world. By means of money desire as such is already informer and creator.

>Money melts in my hands. I am swimming and I melt in the water.

postmodernity as You Can't Represent Nothing increasingly seems to me to be the most ungodly stupid thing in the universe. follow the story from Heidegger to Land and there's a much more cohesive one to be told. politically, god only knows what to do with this, the process continues itself. intellectually? you get the whole fucking sandbox at a stroke.

the Murphy interview is way good.