#cf.sin

[rebecca-comay]

it is only on these terms that reconciliation is thinkable—guilt is universal and the whole world must shatter—and yet guilt remains singular, asymmetrical, and nontransferable. “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive others

REBECCA COMAY

[rebecca-comay]

The confessant "expects that the other will" will seal the deal by answering confession with confession, and it is this expectation that initially seems to dignify the transaction: it protects the confessor from debasement or degradation, at least in his own mind (§§666).

REBECCA COMAY citing from HEGEL’s PhG

[rebecca-comay]

confession is an experiment with loss that stops short,...a simultaneous affirmation and denial in which we can detect a trace of disavowal

REBECCA COMAY PARAPHRASING HEGEL

[bookowlnews]

his/her unanswerable question is precisely the same as the abject lack/excess of sin that is constantly aimed at in the repetition of confession, but that must always remain unaccounted for by the discourse that attempts to annul it.

..The Grail romances, and particularly the Queste, go about attempting to rehabilitate the sinful excess of jouissance within discourse, so that it becomes none other than the plus-dejouir (a), the remainder of jouissance that persists in the symbolic, and that is the repressed truth of the hysteric-sinner’s discourse - BEN RAMM