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  1. Roland Barthes _ A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

    …This singular reversal may perhaps proceed from the fact that for us the "subject" {since Christianity} is the one who suffers: where there is a wound, there is a subject: die Wunde! die Wunde! says Parsifal, thereby becoming "himself"; and the deeper the wound, at the body's center {at the "heart"}, the more the subject becomes a subject: for the subject is intimacy {"The wound…is of a frightful intimacy"}. Such is love's wound: a radical chasm {at the "roots" of being}, which cannot be closed, and out of which the subject drains, constituting himself as a subject in this very draining." ―from_A Lover's Discourse: Fragments_. Translated by Richard Howard, p. 189"
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