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The following quotations—hypertextual “chunks”—have been derived from a digital humanities project called Return to Cinder. Inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, I created Return to Cinder as a digital archive, a record of my reading and thinking.
The notes are organized by motifs, instead of themes. At Returntocinder.com, one can search for—bounce musically between— ideas about love, justice, war … and, most pertinently for this issue of The Psychoanalytic Review, about death, mourning, and precipitation. Each note begins with initials (that link, on the website, to the bibliography) and a page number, allowing a user to trace it back to the original source.
The ideas below come from works by Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Sigmund Freud, highlighting that: (1) death is also the precondition of care; (2) the encounter with an Other carries with it the possibility of outliving them; and (3) one always faces mourning and death sooner than one expects. This final idea speaks to the motif of precipitation, a term Derrida uses to think about the violent inevitability by which time forces all things to come to an end prior to an ideal completion or perfection.
A word about the format: Notes do not begin with a capital letter, and they do not end with a period. The missing words and abbreviations give notes the feel of unfinished clauses or fragments. These grammatical choices accelerate the power of condensation by placing several ideas into the very same spot. The lack of a period and the lack of a capital letter connotes their openness and movement. Condensation has in it a will to interpretation that brings it in contact with other ideas, other fragments, other modes of understanding and publication.
HDG.BT p. 281 (§47) when Dasein reaches (das Erreichen) its wholeness in death, it loses (Verlust) its Being “there” > can't experience (erfahren) death, or understand it as something experienced > the termination (Beendigung) of Dasein becomes ‘Objectively’
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