What is forbidden is enticing. Porn is a classic example.
Hence we have the profound intimacy beween the moral law and the taboo on certain sexual practices and their transgression.
That dialectical relationship seems to be what Bataille is saying.
And yet he says something more than this. He seems to be also saying that in our secular world the transgression of what is prohibited opens up a door to the sacred.
How?
I'm not really sure.
I suspect it has something to do with those intensities of lived experience, which are beyond knowledge and outside communication?
An intensity such as the ecstasy of terror and horror?
What would that be?
Would it be the horror and terror of the lived experience of being raped, as described in Dirty Whore Diary? (you need to scroll down to October 4th as it is Blogger).
Or is that horrific experience that is beyond language, even poetic language?
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at November 22, 2003 05:59 PM | TrackBack