From Proto-Ethical Compassion To Responsibility: Besideness and The Three Primal Mother-Phantasies of Not-enoughness, Devouring and Abandonment
From Proto-Etnical Compassion To Responsibility: Besideness and The Three Primal Mother-Phantasies of Not-enoughness, Devouring and Abandonment
Author(s): Bracha L. EttingerSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų
Summary/Abstract: "We have to imagine Isaac’s compassion for his father, Abraham. This compassion is primary; it starts before, and always also beyond, any possibility of empathy that entails understanding, before any economy of exchange, before any cognition or recognition, before any reactive forgiveness or integrative reparation. It is woven with-in primordial trans-sensitivity and co-re-naissance. Quite early in life such compassion might go into hiding and be covered over by stronger survival tools, as it is too fragile on any non-matrixial survival scale. Its repression is originary. To return beyond originary repression to primary compassion in adulthood is a long long journey within matrixial initiative"[...]
Journal: Athena: filosofijos studijos
- Issue Year: 2007
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 100-145
- Page Count: 46
- Language: English