Sartre the vanishing mediator between Heidegger and Lacan

The oblivion of Sartre for Zizek

Reading Zizek’s Less Than Nothing (LTN) and then going back to read Ticklish Subject (TS) I think I am slowly getting the picture of how this view via…

Why is Heidegger Significant?

We can see from our critique of Zizek’s ahistorical presentation of Lacan one of the reasons that Heidegger is important. Heidegger sets off this whole progression. Without Heidegger there would have not been this progression. There would have been something else, something…

Existenz

This is where we really need to stop and consider what is happening carefully. Heidegger uses the term existenz for the projection of Being by…

Priority of Dasein

Priority of Dasein has to do with why we should concentrate our efforts in understanding Dasein, over any other Ontic being…

Placing Lacan Deeper in his Historical Context

If we follow the hypothesis that Sartre is the vanishing mediator between Lacan and Heidegger then I think we can make some headway in understanding the relation between Lacan via Zizek in the context of Heidegger. But we need to step back and get…

The Horizon of Being and Time

When we are considering the meta-levels of Being we are going beyond the thought of Heidegger in Being and Time. But Being and Time sets the stage for the discovery of the meta-levels of Being because Heidegger shows that there are at least two fundamental modalities by which…

Summary of the Development of Nondual Notions

There are three great civilizations across the globe centered in China, India, and the West. Each of these has had its nondual Heresy that it had to deal with. China developed Taoism as an alternative to Confucianism, Buddhism developed as a Heresy…

Dasein first mentioned

So what we want to note is that Dasein comes from Hegel’s logic. Dasein is the individuated being that arises from…

Ontological inquiry

So if there are revolutions happening in the ontic sciences then how much more important to have such a revolution with respect to Ontology itself, if that is possible. And the reason we think it is possible is that our whole idea of what Ontology is has ossified as we can see by the…

Fundamental Ontology = Existential Analytic of Dasein

It is not “I think, therefore I exist.”

but rather

“I am in the world therefore I exist.”