Through joy, what happens is that “there” comes “here,” “there” is “here” — yet not so wholly here as to exhaust its “there-ness.” This means that we are forced to expand, to depart from “here,” but not as though fleeing from here. Rather, we depart from “here” for the sake of keeping the promise that there is now here, that there has caused here to open up. Joy does not bring about a state but an act and a motion. Joy brings about a live inception. Its act belongs jointly to the human subject and to the world. Joy cannot be reduced and crammed into a psychological framework or into a
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