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The Unknowing God

Peter Rollins - The Archive

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The Enigmatic Desire of the Other

When we're young, this enigmatic, what does the other want from me? The mother is a mystery and not unknowing generates our desire. When we get older, when we encounter that early experience of the other's desire in adulthood, it really, it's called Jui Sun. This is pleasurable pain. We live in a world where constantly people are told that you can fulfill your desire,. You can get the thing that will make you feel like you're no longer lacking, right? So traditionally, there is a notion that everybody is constrated - everyone feels they must give up something to enter into the world. There is some other who has it all, but none of us

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