L’angoscia del concetto

Abstract

The essay by Paolo Bettineschi is opposed to a thought that consumes its own presuppositions, and argues for the benefit of the testimony of a truth to which thought tends as the stable end of its fulfillment. My comment praises the emphasis on the emancipatory and non-oppressive force of a vertical truth, excessive and further rather than horizontal and immanent. I article then a Lacanian interpretation of anguish, which is not connected to the absence of an object and therefore to the processes of symbolic work. On the contrary, anguish is read, through Kierkegaardian lenses, as the announcement of a gap in the symbolic enclosure and as the irruption of an exceptional moment in the normal syntax of the law. Along this path, the need for stability of presence is undermined by a new life that arises from the loss of fullness.