God is a problema, a provocation, an insistent disturbance, a solicitation, a visitation by a stranger, like a call calling I know not what, or an insistent knock on our door in the middle of the night. That makes prayer an exposure to a projectile, a willingness to stand out in the open in the middle of a storm, where there are projectiles everywhere carried by the wind, hence the extreme opposite of a projection. Levinas calls it a trauma, by which he means not a psychopathic trauma that results in narcissism but an ethical trauma to our narcissism, and that is well said.
