The main character in In Search of
Lost Time, by Marcel Proust - the
main character, Marcel, is seeing the things around him in the light of his
projects; that will first of all say his love affairs. When his being in love
has faded away, the things appear meaningless and ordinary. It is a nihilistic
moment in the same way as in Albert Camus´ novels. It is the entrance of the
labyrinth.
On the one hand these reactions are an expression of Man as a natural
being, on the other hand they are also an expression of the historical
limitation of Man, and therefore the instance, which under various forms makes
it possible for the Ego to continue. The historical limitation is time and its
images, the perspective you have on yourself and the world. The Ego is this historical limitation. The Ego
is therefore a philosophical ego.
In such a process, there can´t be any openness,
devotion and love.
Love can only arise when the Ego is not
present.
When the Ego is not present, then Man, and the
Otherness, can fill each other out. This happens in the devotion. True love is
devotion, where you in self-forgetful openness give yourself away with the
whole of your being.
That is the reason why the Philosophical
Globetrotter must understand the whole of the process of mind, which is the
thinking´s process: the labyrinth.
Understanding the labyrinth is the guiding
force which will lead you to follow the thread back.
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