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Michael Mocatta finds a practical aid for recovery from addiction in a philosophy of extreme experience.
Georges Bataille (1897-1962) had a difficult childhood. In this article I will seek to explain this French philosopher’s thinking, and in particular his conception of extreme exterior experiences and sacred inner ones. We’ll see how Bataille writes of his experience of being driven to act by compulsions beyond his control, and in his writings on such compulsions, including his autobiographical ones, we can identify both the symptoms and root causes of several of the most common forms of mental illness. We shall also see that Bataille’s concept of inner experience can be of immense value to those seeking recovery from mental illness or addiction. Core to my argument will be Bataille’s autobiographical essay ‘Coincidences’, published as Part 2 of his novella The Story of the Eye (originally published in 1928, although my page
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French essayist, philosophical theorist and novelist, often called the "metaphysician of evil." Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potential of the obscene. He rejected traditional literature and considered that the ultimate aim of all intellectual, artistic, or religious activity should be the annihilation of the rational individual in a violent, transcendental act of communion. Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Philippe Sollers have all written enthusiastically about his work.
"No blame, no shame. Eroticism – the women flaunting their heavy breasts, the crying mouths, which is the point – is even more desirable to me if it is totally hopeless. It is not the same as mysticism whose point is the promise of enlightenment. I can hardly stand it and quickly return to erotic vomit, to its insolence, which spares nothing and no one. How sweet to enter into the dirty night and proudly enclose myself with it. The girl I went with had the simplicity of a child, almost silent. The one who fell violently, from a tabletop to the ground, had an effaced tenderness: an appalling tenderness, before my indifferent drunken eyes."(Guilty by Georges Bataille, translated with an introduction by Stuart Kendall, 2011, p. 11)
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