beautiful. I love the exploration of masochistic religion, in Weil taken to the masochistic religious extreme of denying herself baptism. Its all mixed in with morality, as an decent christian should show solidarity with the unbaptised, but also its masochistic. As well as Deluzze and Sontag, there is the failed contract that Sartre presents in being and nothing, in which the sadist and masochistic both fail, due to the inability to find self in reflected self, especially in this polarised form.
This Freudian relationship, used to demonstrate the ultimate position of drive rather than intended to be actualised can only be found in a Weil version of religion. Sartre's extreme position of self reflected self, fails in his atheism, because the totally negated can only exist in the mirrored pure being of god.
Weil's sacrifice was via work, she saw the worker as totally subjugated, such that they only needed to raise their head to receive god. The bowed matchstick men walking to the factory of Lowry represent her ideal, and she experienced this total subjugation .. a time when she would have got up and left the bus at a single order, and not argued as the middle class adventurer she had once been. At the moment of total subjugation she saw how close to god she could get. But the contract of choice of the masochist remains, she could choose to do other.
Incredible! Anthony Clarke has an excellent book this way entitled “A Cry in the Darkness” that examines Dorothy Solle, Moltmann, Jüngel, and von Balthasar on forsakenness in ways that avoid Weil’s commitment to self abasement and asceticism. That said, her intensity surrounding personal and economic ethics is inspiring and theologically unique! Love this amazing writing…thank you for sharing this gift
this was beautiful wow
beautiful. I love the exploration of masochistic religion, in Weil taken to the masochistic religious extreme of denying herself baptism. Its all mixed in with morality, as an decent christian should show solidarity with the unbaptised, but also its masochistic. As well as Deluzze and Sontag, there is the failed contract that Sartre presents in being and nothing, in which the sadist and masochistic both fail, due to the inability to find self in reflected self, especially in this polarised form.
This Freudian relationship, used to demonstrate the ultimate position of drive rather than intended to be actualised can only be found in a Weil version of religion. Sartre's extreme position of self reflected self, fails in his atheism, because the totally negated can only exist in the mirrored pure being of god.
Weil's sacrifice was via work, she saw the worker as totally subjugated, such that they only needed to raise their head to receive god. The bowed matchstick men walking to the factory of Lowry represent her ideal, and she experienced this total subjugation .. a time when she would have got up and left the bus at a single order, and not argued as the middle class adventurer she had once been. At the moment of total subjugation she saw how close to god she could get. But the contract of choice of the masochist remains, she could choose to do other.
Incredible! Anthony Clarke has an excellent book this way entitled “A Cry in the Darkness” that examines Dorothy Solle, Moltmann, Jüngel, and von Balthasar on forsakenness in ways that avoid Weil’s commitment to self abasement and asceticism. That said, her intensity surrounding personal and economic ethics is inspiring and theologically unique! Love this amazing writing…thank you for sharing this gift