trepidations

“Pain is not shared” Simone Weil expressed it in the following way:  “At a certain moment, the pain is lessened by projecting it into the universe, but the universe is impaired; the pain is more intense when it comes home again, but something in me does not suffer and remains in contact with a universe which is not impaired.” (7) Psychoanalyses have revealed that when the limit to pleasure is surpassed one experiences pain; the duplicity of pain is that it is intricately tied to pleasure; this is what Jacques Lacan calls jouissance.   If one has experienced severe emotional pain, this link between pain and pleasure may not be evident or line up with experience.  Extreme depression can be like crawling back into one’s symbiotic relationship with mother.  Delusions from a purveyor’s point of view may seem to be so convincing to the delusional person so as to seem real enough to commit the most glorious of acts to the most trepidation.  Illness of the psyche comes not to the deserving, but it rains of many who would else wise be contented without it.   The way out of such a predicament is not to become ubermensch, but to take a lowly status; to give way to punishments of all sorts.  Even self-flagellation is to be considered, but this may be too close to the jouissance phenomenon propped-up by Lacan.