fabricating concepts ... More rigorously, philosophy is the discipline
that involves creating concepts. Does this mean that the friend is
friend of his own concepts? Or is the actuality of the concept due to
the potential of the friend, in the unity of creator and his double?
The object of philosophy is to create concepts that are always new.
(What Is Philosophy?, 5, emphasis in the original)But what does the friend mean, or rather the lover? We can say that
love and friendship have the same power of the concept, the capacity
of stretching bridges over the abyss, of allowing the wanderer to cross
the abyss. There is nothing in love, nothing in friendship; love is not
the truth of anything, it does not prove anything, does not demons-
trate anything, does not ‘mean’, does not signify.
Thus it is not debated, but flies over the abyss of being.
Is this not perhaps the same task of the analyst, of therapy, if we
cease considering it as the regaining of a lost normality? Reality addicts
pretend that a normal behaviour exists, a normal language, a normal
world. This is not true. Normality has no basis on which to affirm its
right to judgment.
There is no fullness to which one must conform, but rather an abyss
over which we must soar. Culture is the invention of techniques to soar
over the abyss. Friendship is their form.Isn’t the task of analysis precisely to recharge Expression with semi-
otic heterogeneity and to run counter to the disenchantment,
demystification and depoetisation of the contemporary world?
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