![]() Circulation of responsibilities, declension of wills, perpetual transfer of forms. Who would wish to have salvation at such a price? It is so much more human to put one's fate, one's desire, one's will into the hands of another. The individual would have to be able to transform himself into the vestal, or the slave, of his identity, control all his circuits and all the circuits of the world which meet in his genes, nerves and thoughts. ![]() Moreover, it is a groundless utopian notion. ![]() This Christian and modern idea is a vain and arrogant proposition. No one can be expected to bear the responsibility for their own life. ![]() So far as existence is concerned, as Ajar would say, it needs to be taken in charge by someone. Before dying, he was already to live in a world that was no longer his own. The death of Sartre, by contrast, left the world unchanged and seems an ineluctable, but insignifi cant event. Such were the deaths of Barthes and Lacan, I believe: the world has taken another direction since, in which these subtle figures would no longer have had any meaning. Thus death can have the effect of a prophetic disappearance. “One way of dying is to make your death alter the state of things in such a way that you no longer have any reason to be a part of it. ![]()
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