God
driven
out and repressed
Of
this space of strict 'humanity' God had to be driven out. Symmetrical
inversion of the account of Genesis? Too much in the way, therefore,
the Judeo-Christian Father, face to a claim of a purely
parthenogenetic origin. Too much in the way, the Father of Being, of
Good and of Truth since our own productions, our own values, our own
clearnesses are largely enough. Too much in the way, outrageousely
too much, the Father with his Son and the Holy Spirit!
However
you get never finished driving out God. He resists beyond your logic
and your coherence which are very shallow. Very deeply, hidden and driven back, a great
dramaturgy is playing. A mysterious negative reversed theology! The struggle of
Jacob never finishes. Man will never leave without harm. And the
fight resumes again and again… The combat continues.
Which
God is thus driven out and repressed?
Not an abstracted 'divinity', fruit of the reason which the reason
can put between brackets or exclude. But 'I am' met concretely and
existentially through a historical experience. The modern man
protests in vain. He cannot do as if this encounter
had not taken place. If the personal experience is refused to him, at least
he takes part of it through a historical community. He 'knows'… in
the biblical meaning! He 'knows' because the whole of his culture
cannot ignore. One does not fight a whole night - as Jacob - with the
Other one without marks. From the Judeo-Christian experience western
atheism takes a dimension and a significance radically different from
what can be observed in other spaces.
Can
God be driven out of human depths? Against
the vertical rooting, creative of humanity, radical antagonism to
schizoid enclosure, eagerness was done extreme. There, out of the
extreme depths of human interiority, God was to be driven out with
much more violence than of all the external domains. But from there,
precisely, God does not let himself be driven out. It is
ontologically impossible. You will never be able to expel him. Just
as a tree cannot survive cut from its roots. Just as a river cannot
refuse its source. It is impossible. You can only repress him.
And
the business of repression started to function, through our history,
with the logical relentless and the savage energy of the desperate
ones. The glory of man was in question, and his power, and his
glory.
To
the
massive mechanics of repression and the heavy mechanisms of defence,
one endeavoured to lend scientific solidity. A meta-history of the
'sciences' known as social, since their most remote origins, would
undoubtedly reveal the occult purpose of their 'lucidity' and the
extent of the therapeutic eagerness 'to save' man from himself, that
is to save him from his divine filiation.
The
major reason of the one-dimension of the social sciences, which can
reveal only one face of the human mystery, is that, in fact, they are
constituted as a negative theology. The
right side
of a back side. The
back side of a right side. The
massive
repression testifies negatively to the repressed. The
same one
shouts negatively the other
one.
A vacuum of God fills curiously with reversed substitutes of the
divine. Where the schizoid totalizing experiences the ultimate
narrowing of finiteness, and where it meets the absolute neuter
alongside the absolute nothing, is located a decisive point. A point
of rupture. But a point of intersection too, and of symmetrical
inversion.
Where Alliance calls for imitation - “be
perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect”
- the anti-alliance contracts itself on a nothing inflated of pride.
Cut off the divine Breath and far away from his image, man can just
ape God. This unauthentic condition, consequently, swells by mimesis.
A conflicting mimesis, because the impossible balance of the schizoid
man with God of Alliance can only nourish the resentment. One does
not refuse alliance without nourishing repression and violence. And
when the look of man on God is perverted, the look of man on man has
to be perverted too. Mimetic violence plays in escalation. It
conspires. Man is so deeply a child of Alliance that he does not break
it without tying pacts based on mimetic vanity.
Modern lucidity would like to live 'only with what one knows'. But do you
never know another thing that the one you want to know? In fact our
modernity knows more than it does know. It knows on bottom of driven
back knowledge. You cannot make as if the biblical and cultural
encounter had not taken place. This impassioned embrace with the
Other one during so long a love story…
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