
The Philosophy of Georges Bataille with Tim Themi and Adam Lovasz
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The Constipation Metaphor
Bataille uses the term block when he talks about why his inner experience is not really a mysticism. He says traditional mystics, even if they might say, we don't know what God is, just by having God there is for Bataille a block. This is what he talks about in an experience. It's a block on the floor once it's there. And so, I guess, but one gets when one removes that block is a kind of liberation from the idea We should somehow try and find the anal ring in the starry sky. But these resemblances aren't completely sort of out of the blue because, you know, these are natural processes just as
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