Mar 23, 2010
René Magritte, La lunette d'approche (The Looking Glass), 1963 (Menil collection, Houston).
Slavoj Žižek writes:
...what if we turn the perspective around and conceive of the obstacle as that which prevents the infant from fully fitting into its environment, of this original 'out-of-joint', also in its positive aspect, as another name for the very abyss of freedom... a certain gap or void in the order of being... (Slavoj Žižek, The Ticklish Subject (London: Verso, 1999), pp 288-9).