Tovarăș de-al lui Žižek, Alain Badiou, comunist convins ajuns la bătrânețe, mai are o convingere la fel de puternică: iubirea. Adevărul e că și eu cred în iubire, ăsta-i păcatul meu.
Pentru Badiou, iubirea fără riscuri, iubirea sigură, așa cum o promovează, să zicem, site-urile specializate pe „dating” (ca să nu le zic matrimoniale), este o imposibilitate: it reminds me of the propaganda of the American army when promoting the idea of ”smart” bombs and ”zero dead” wars.
Iubirea înseamnă să dai semnificație simplului hazard, adică acelei întâlniri absolut întâmplătoare: Starting out from something that is simply an encounter, a trifle, you learn that you can experience the world on the basis of difference and not only in terms of identity. And you can even be tested and suffer in the process. In today’s world, it is generally thought that individuals only pursue their own self-interest. Love is an antidote to that. Provided it isn’t conceived only as an exchange of mutual favours, or isn’t calculated way in advance as a profitable investment, love really is a unique trust placed in chance.

Ajungem, desigur, și la faimosul „There is no sexual relationship”: Lacan reminds us that in sex each individual is to a large extent on their own, if I can put it that way. Naturally, the other’s body has to be mediated, but at the end of the day, the pleasure will be always your pleasure. Sex separates, doesn’t unite. The fact that you are naked and pressing against the other is an image, an imaginary representation. What is real is that pleasure takes you a long way away, very far from the other. What is real is narcissistic, what binds is imaginary. [...] Lacan’s proposition shocked people since at the time everybody was talking about nothing else but “sexual relationships”. If there is no sexual relationship, love is what fills the absence of a sexual relationship.
Lacan doesn’t say that love is a disguise for sexual relationships; he says that sexual relationships don’t exist, that love is what comes to replace the non-relationship. This idea leads him to say that in love the other tries to approach “the being of the other”. [...] While desire focuses on the other, always in a somewhat fetishist manner, on particular objects, like breasts, buttocks and cock… love focuses on the very being of the other, on the other as it has erupted, fully armed with its being, into my life thus disrupted and re-fashioned.
Trei concepții majore asupra iubirii: First, there is the romantic interpretation that focuses on the ecstasy of the encounter. Secondly, the interpretation based on a commercial or legalistic perspective, which argues that love must in the end be a contract between two free individuals [...]. Finally, there is the sceptical interpretation that turns love into an illusion. My own philosophical view is attempting to say that love [...] is a quest for truth. What kind of truth? I mean truth in relation to something quite precise: what kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
Badiou crede în ceea ce numim „enduring love” sau iubirea care trebuie construită și în permanență – toată viața – reinventată, pentru că adevăratul mister este nu cum s-a produs minunata întâlnire, ci cum faci să ții iubirea cu adevărat vie, cum transformi arbitrarul în destin.
Apoi despre iubire & politică, iubire & artă (unde Badiou recunoaște că dragostea lui pentru teatru – a fost și actor în tinerețe – e mai puternică și mai autentică decât cea pentru filosofie, care a venit la maturitate, cu efort susținut etc.), dar hai că deja m-am întins prea mult cu preludiul și n-am mai apucat s-ajung la miez. Deci tre’ să vă luați cărticica, eu o am într-o ediție superbă:

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