Discoursing with an ancient sacred text

This blog is a philosophical exploration of the Song of Songs. My project explores a Cixousian (écriture féminine) encounter with biblical literature along subjective existential lines. In particular I am exploring life, meaningfulness, encounter and freedom as these contradict death, absurdity, separation and oppression. This discourse with the Song of Songs & other biblical texts seeks the critical moment that sparks transformation in the present.

Friday, June 18, 2010

The dysfunction of yearning

Sate me with raison cakes
Succour me with apricots
For I am afflicted with love...
Son 2:5-6

What a fine line there is between desire and dysfunction!  There is nothing so close to the tipping point between sanity and madness.  Am I sane; am I mad?  Am I willingly deceived?  How exploitative, how irrational my own biology in the mad passion of love?  Nothing can drive a person to the edge like the onslaught of chemical obsession.  And nothing can rip appart the foundations of the world like the failure of love.  That line stretches out until it snaps.  And the vulnerable die at the point of paralysis.  At the point of being missed.  At the moment of sinking into the earth unseen, unknown.  I dissipate and lose substance.  I lose breath and vanish.
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