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>>11239127
Delve into more philosophy than Jordan Peterson. You’re on the right track, but don’t stagnate within his viewpoint. Start with Nietzsche, I know Pete mentions him a lot. Starting with the Greeks is a meme, btw. Get out there.

>>11241887
Eternally complete AND improving. Chew on that.

>>11241890
You got it m8.

>>11173377
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As you say, metaphysical mediation/correlation is predicated on a lack constitutive of desire: ‘in metaphysical correlation, thought is a hunt’, it forms a loop without a boundary or an outside: it ‘is always after a response that it has already posited before it begins the task of thinking …. It has caught its prey before the hunt has begun’. Mystical mediation / correlation by contrast is predicated upon a loss, ‘thought is sacrifice’. As such it too forms a loop, one that circulates a void representing the unfathomable blackness/divine darkness of the Godhead. This is the ‘extimate’ excess around which the drive circulates, but which it cannot encounter or know. In Catren’s terms, metaphysical correlation takes the form of a ‘dermal’ loop, while mystical correlation has a loop characteristic of the drive. BTW: he likes to use Lacan’s term for the Trieb which is dérive, that is, a ‘drift that has become deflected from its aim’, rather like Ruusbroec’s ‘wayless way’, maybe. The example Catren gives comes from theoretical physics, however, that of ‘a star drifting around a black hole’.

>For you, ultimately, it is mystical thought that poses a ‘critical limit’ for metaphysical thought since the intrinsic relations of the metaphysical correlation can be ‘displaced or scaled up’ to the extrinsic relations of mystical correlation. Similarly, Catren argues that it is the role of the ‘Shrink’ to shrink all the (dermal) loops that can be shrunk until you get to the unshrinkable loops that disclose the death drive, the symptom of the fundamental Thing of enjoyment around which it circulates.

A self-unwinding circle: the spiral.