Now, as he rightly notes, “it doesn’t follow that the only cure for [it] is a return to transcendence” (p. 309). The dissatisfaction and emptiness can propel a return to transcendence. But often — and perhaps more often than not now? — the “cure” to this nagging pressure of absence is sought within immanence, and it is this quest that generates the nova effect, looking for love/meaning/significance/quasi “transcendence” within the immanent order.
