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VII: The Irreducible Ambiguity of Symbolic Failure is the Singular Speech of the Divine Death resists symbolization absolutely, yet it is symbolized all the time. The failure to conceive of death is how death is conceived. The representation of death contains its own negation just like the “Cloud of Unknowing”
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Part VI: The Clearing of Intention The mystic makes a clearing for what is given and not for what she intends to be given. Her clearing is made by the expression of “not this” and “not that” in both the “neti, neti” of the East and the “not, not” of
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V: Religious Representation of Symbolic Failure Heidegger famously used the example of a hammer as an object that is only ever seen as what it is used for until it breaks. The Hammer’s appearance is molded by its concept, which is its “Ready-to-Hand" use-value. When it breaks, its