''Reflection,'' Primary& Secondary in G Marcel to Denys

''Reflection,'' Primary& Secondary in G Marcel to Denys

I am reading Gabriel Marcel THE-MYSTERY-OF-BEING in order to reach for a resolution of what seems impoverished in study of the extant-- and likely too the-fake, the forged-- of the Forger Denys himself (like=> Denys whomever likeliest is homo sapiens dangledown)-- that part of my prime study of the CORPUS-DIONYSIACUM (CD) which can tell me about the wee wee wee guy beneath the hidden exaltive words in his text. I am led to think that the-human-element in this case will be least polished, more off-rhythm, off-rhetorical. . . telling of the WHAT WHY of Denys beneath the HOW of fixed ideas (obsessive thought) glittering with the hype of superlatives and infinities. < At this point I have come to wonder-- in the same way that I read David's PSALMS and ask, "Of what are ye trying to convince yourself, Scaredy?. . . That applies to all the PollyAnna in Dionysius; "me thinks his banter in fine is hiding something down-there, in-there. This reflection begins to alienate me from a writer, our Hero of a kind of agnosticism, that now and mehopes temporarily separates me from Denys.>

The French philosophers in the Bergsonian tradition have a "touchy-feely" element in their work-- pertinent to my groping for an answer about this humaine problem-- Marcel the Bergsonian Existentialist especially. He has a chapter in THE-MYSTERY-OF-BEING I on "Primary and Secondary Reflection" that speaks to such disconnects as now I have with Dionysius now; he relates the disruption of a (social, or supra-social) relation as having two phases-- "primary reflexion" as breach of communion with another, "secondary reflection" as that process toward re-unification. < In Marcel's own writ. Pp 97-98top/Réflexion et Mystère=> "Disons tout à fait en gros qu'au lieu que la réflexion primare tend à dissourdre l'unité, la reflexion second est essentiellement récupératrice, elle est une reconquête.">

I think-- it is hunch more that proof-- that those matters which betray the glitches in this polished CD will the-more show me the wimp behind the veil of this "Wizard" (? of Oz ?) from which this drunken transcendental verbiage comes, these ecstasies hanging-over from so much seeming-manic or seeming psychasthenic (obsessive) exaltation. . . These would also reflect Denys' own fumbles toward the secondary reflection-- the punctums leading to these obvious studiums, these assymetries that lead to ". . .of regard to the symmetry of the discourse; and the hiddenness, beyond our
capacity, we have honoured by silence."(Parker's translation, end of "On the Heavenly Hierarchy"). Indeed "asymmetries" occur in CD too, and if I ought to use the very language of Dionysius, I think I can pit the innitial assymetrics of CD toward resulting symmetries. The asymmetries would include such dyses as irritation, disagreement, rhyming (assonance too, and so "clang associations"), repititions as fixed ideas, "over-glow" in style as suggestive of anxiety in trying too hard to make his points. These are the dyses which also are cognate with Barthes Punctum/Studium polarity, with the DEINOS of Antigone and Heidegger's INTRODUCTION-TO-METAPHYSICS, with the Schmürz of Boris Vian's EMPIRE-BUILDERS,
                                                                                                                                     the Wounded who is, as we all are, trying when we are silly and cowboy to "put on the best face we can" in a game of life which requires all players to play-well-and-lose<life, which like the Cosmos ends mortally to Absolute Zero>. These infinitessimals which are endless-puzzle-enough, as new Ste. Thérèse de Lisieux's "littleness," begin with moribund death-prone losers to reach for the IMPOSSIBLE-- INFINITIES which are actually unreachable, impossible, manic ecstasies and doing-drunks included.

vernonlynn stephens, sissy

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