"Fiat lux": une philosophie du sublime
1992; Presses Universitaires De France; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2104-385X
Autores Tópico(s)Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
ResumoWith the sublime a certain form of reality emerges which questions us while dazzling us. To attempt a philosophy of the sublime is to pretend to construct the definition of an object which is evanescent and refractory to any model, to grasp its effects on a mortified witness and seek the stake which is then revealed to him. It seemed to us that only a theory of risk could account both for the different forms of the wavering of the perceptible and for the uncertainty of the subject in suspense between rapture and fear of undone bonds. The sublime goes beyond form, displays the hidden reverse side, blurs the reference marks and blots out the traces or art. Just as the distraction of the great, the shock of the ugly and the dizziness of the obscure have a tendency to do away with the beautiful, the simplicity of which is bound to ensure its return while removing the suspicion of the pitfall. Yet, the experience of the destabilization of the world finds its correlation in that of the suspension of the ego. The longinian enthusiasm wins the adhesion of the whole being, the burkean amazement upsets the subject in its intimacy and respect brings out hierarchy and celavages in Kant. If we now go back from the effects to the causes, the confrontation to power, the sufferings of passion and the will for virtue indicate the efforts made by the embodied subject in order to bring forth a sublime which he would not be in a position to claim as a principle of creation and of action because it is anonymous and transpersonal.
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