Necessity and the split-subject

It is the dissonance of the Lacanian split subject and the dissonance of all experiences of difficulties, hardships and injustices which are approached by Weil through Metaxu. Weil states “Contradiction is the criterion. We cannot by suggestion obtain things which are incompatible. Only grace can do that.”  If I am to follow the ways of Weil and Lacan I will accept the world for what it is, this does not mean always accepting the master signifier, I will not foreclose and become so rigid in belief that I cannot be convinced otherwise on matters in the world that operate by the law(s) of the world, which Weil calls necessity.  As Weil says, “The mechanism of the world rests on necessity and the obligation that the sun and all stars do shine and all matter does create gravity. These are necessary elements and fundamental to the continuous nature of the cosmos. Necessity is the subsistence of all things both finite and eternal, earth and heaven.” Then as I understand it that, Metaxu is an active way of understanding the moment of actual change, difficulty, complication and contradiction, not a conceptual or cognitive construction of an understanding of a historical process.  As necessity is law(s), so Metaxu is the acceptance of contradiction.  The implication here is that through Weil’s understandings I can accept a law or state of being which determines my way of being.  To refuse to accept this mechanism, law, or way is to foreclose on the Name-of-the-Father, in Lacanian terms.  This following of the way is not resignation to some inactive abstract “God,” but rather participating in Life with the flexibility to be a subject that is aware of itself through its two levels, ego and object.  I speak or enunciate a self indicating phrase like “I am alive” with the illusion of a unity, imaginary unity. This unity is presumed from the self reflecting or split-subject.