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Christ's Abandonment

example · Christianity/Hegel · retold in 7 talks

Hegel’s reading of Christ’s cry on the cross: the distance separating man from God is immanent to God Himself, proving the Big Other is incomplete.

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“Eli Eli lama sabachthani father why have you abandoned me”
“Eli Eli lama sabachthani, Padre padre perché mi hai abbandonato? ... God himself becomes atheist.”
“if Christ meant it seriously, it means God himself stopped to believing God.”

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Hegel’s reading of Christ’s cry on the cross: the distance separating man from God is immanent to God Himself, proving the Big Other is incomplete., illustrating Christian atheism,separation vs. alienation
Christ’s cry 'My God, why have you forsaken me?' is where God becomes 'atheist' (absent); Žižek identifies with this as an 'atheist Christian.', illustrating atheist Christian
Jesus’ 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani' is interpreted not as an 'animal soul' error but as God Himself ceasing to believe in God, mirroring the chicken joke’s requirement that the Other acknowledge the truth., illustrating God is unconscious
On the night before crucifixion, Christ tells disciples 'Please just stay here with me,' not promising redemption but sharing pure despair. Žižek sees this as the model for 'dark' progressive engagement., illustrating pure despair
1:09:11 Disorder Under Heaven.2019-10-07 · 1:31:10
When Christ cries 'Father, why have you abandoned me?', God himself is briefly an atheist (Chesterton), Žižek reads this as God splitting with himself, the model for his ontology of the fall and division., illustrating atheist Christian,the fall as ontological truth,self-positing
Chesterton's observation that only Christianity has God himself cry 'Father why have you forsaken me', briefly, even God ceases to believe in God. Žižek sees in this the Christian solution: abandonment by God is an effect of God being radically separated from itself., illustrating atheist Christianity,subject as self-divided,the Real as immanent obstacle