Lacan’s curse

Let whoever cannot meet at its horizon the subjectivity of his time give it up then. For how could he who knows nothing of the dialectic that engages him in a symbolic movement with so many lives possibly make his being the axis of those lives? (264).

events explode, phenomena flash, like thunder and lightning

Once communication between heterogeneous series is established…Something ‘passes’ between the borders, events explode, phenomena flash, like thunder and lightning… A pure spatio-temporal dynamism, with its necessary participation in the forced movement, can be experienced only at the borders of the livable, under conditions beyond which it would entail the death of any well-constituted subject endowed with independence and activity. Embryology already displays the truth that there are systematic vital movements, torsions and drifts, that only an embryo can sustain: an adult would be torn apart by them. (118)