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Ep. 34 - Sacredness: Horror, Music, and the Symbol

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Inter-Categorical Monster

When the spit comes out of me, it becomes inter-categorical. It's me but it's not me because it's not inside me but it'm outside it would be. So this is not a feature of ancient thought. This is a way in which we respond to things that violate our core categorical ways of making sense of the world. The vampire is also inter- categorical between the living and the dead as well as being alive in the sense of consuming and being able to be generative.

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