An animal `less' (something)
Where can this tropism upwards come from in the human animal? The ‘logos’ presupposes it, without being able to found it perfectly in a rational manner. There is only the ‘mythos’ which can give rise to thoughts about it. A fragment of divine lost in the human animal and which, in the middle of the sensory experiment, keeps the nostalgia of the divine one. A power of aspiration of the soul towards what is on-high. Through a fall, a reminiscence and a rise…
It could seem normal that the crowning of the biological reign, man, is an animal `plus' something. Our physicalist and substantialist reflexes value only what is full. As if the essential thing consisted in adding, accumulating and buckling the largest possible container with the maximum of contents! We dare a paradox. Man is an animal `less' something. The man is an animal which exists in the vacuum of its animal reality.
It is in this gaping openness that the specific human reality emerges. Misery and greatness of man frustrated in his simple animal condition. He is exposed to risk and to create, by symbolic mediation, through the word, a world always other and always new. This symbolic possibility, the space of deployment of what is specifically human, represents a real scandal within nature. How can you explain such an emergence of the `not' in the middle of a large `yes' that nature does not cease repeating with itself?
The animal has this extraordinary faculty to be completely at home in nature. It lives inside of an absolute ‘yes' with nature. It lives in absolute harmony with its origin. Man, son of `no', remains irremediably just as a frustrated animal.
The animal is undoubtedly too full with his animal reality to be open on the spirit… To reach a higher order implies the immense crossing of a vacuum. Man, does not cease trying this out it in thousand manners. Our gaping depths are perverted when they refuse this essential humanizing ‘poverty’
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