Sense is through gaping

The more the sense is including and constituent the more it is gaping. The extreme sense is extremely gaping. Maybe the 'absence' of God testifies for that. The essential concepts of our condition can be divided into two classes according to whether they are 'closed' or 'open'. The first ones enable us to become `Masters and owners'. They tend towards a minimum of sense and a maximum of power. The second ones expose us to infinite gaping. They tend towards a maximum of sense and leave us with a minimum of ability.

The existential sense of humans is found through concepts of extreme gaping like God, Being, Eternity, Existence, Death, Love, Freedom, Evil… all concepts impossible to 'enclose' in strict comprehension. You can never go completely around them. You cannot properly include and understand them. The extreme gaping and weakness of the existential sense refer to the 'force' of another kind, not in continuity but in rupture. Through uncertainty and risk you have to take your chance and live your liberty. Here you decide for authentic humanity.

The sense speaks in gaping. Between the words. Between the lines… An living word is said through the fault of compactnesses, through destruction of the structures, through open fences. It speaks through questioning. It says the difference. To speak is making up a presence through its absence. To speak is expressing sense through signs. A sign is primarily something open to its other dimension, symbol in its original meaning. A sign is not by itself, in what is immediately seen. It is only in and by the intention of meaning. It is lieutenant of the 'other'. It speaks In its absence.

To speak is to translate significances intentionally, thus to articulate the possible signifier to signify through space-time mediations. Man is the demiurge of the significances. He is not however the absolute creator and he cannot become absolutely their 'Master and the owner'. Beyond the meaning in its control there is the realm of transcendental signified. Matrix of the specific human reality, is fertile only thanks to the breath which comes to him from elsewhere.

The gaping of sense is infinite. The sense is open on a `elsewhere'. It is open on an eternity. It is open on another order. It is open on an infinite 'why'. It is open on a ceaseless exodus.

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