The Ego and the Flesh Quotes

“The rhythm and style of my existence, my loves and hatreds, my alienation and the possibility of my deliverance, the morning blossoming of my birth and the unfigurable horizon of my death, and everything that happens to me in the world must first be announced or prefigured in the elementary phenomena of my immanent life.”
― Jacob Rogozinski, The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis

“Projecting the abjection that haunts us onto the Other: how do we avoid ceding to this, which nourishes our phantasms and sometimes our mass graves?… The ego-flesh would have to confront its torment, take it up in itself, instead of projecting it outside of itself: from that hole of jouissance in which the Thing pulses, from where that ancient wound was, I must come forth to myself and to my body—but I will be able to do so only if I had already been there, only if I recognized this wound as mine, and this unnamable Thing as the flesh of my flesh.”
― Jacob Rogozinski, The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis

“Ontological neutrality, being-in-the-world, being-with-others, and being-toward-death are the four vectors of transcendence, the four branches of the cross of Being to which the ego is nailed… Neither ek- nor Da- nor Sein—only the name ego suits it.”
― Jacob Rogozinski, The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis

“When the ego abdicates its freedom, when it becomes a passive spectator of its own existence, the times are ripe for the philosophies of History”
― Jacob Rogozinski, The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis

“All sacrificial philosophies are always grounded on an egocide. Because these philosophies take the ego for nothing, for an inessential moment of the life of the spirit, for a fiction forged by the will to power, they can call it to a heroic death, a death in which its empty existence will finally find its meaning and its dignity.”
― Jacob Rogozinski, The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis