Evil and Givenness by Brian W. Becker

Author:Brian W. Becker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Published: 2022-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

CONCLUSION

The envious evil eye destroys what matters most to me, depriving me of those relations that deliver me to myself. It takes up residence within me through a forgetful appropriation that leads me to identify with it. Evil eye then begets evil eye, one coming from without giving rise to one from within. Nietzsche writes that “[y]ou cannot look at yourself in the middle of an experience, your eye will turn into an ‘evil eye.’”42 Yet, this is what this evil eye induces by enclosing me upon myself, without distance or elsewhere, forced to direct my gaze nowhere else, rendering me an object to myself. I am incurvatus in se (caved in on myself).

Once the evil eye takes up residence in my diminished state, it now secures the status of a body. No longer merely a hateful gaze of a “faceless otherness,” it acquires a flesh, but an ambivalent flesh, one that is simultaneously mine and not mine, a confused mixture of hetero-affection and auto-affection. As such, the foreign-body makes its appearance, marking another advance of the thanatonic phenomenon.

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