The death one seeks for a phantom is not real annihilation of self

Evidence

It’s for the phantom that you want to die: but such a “death” would mean that the desiring frame that makes sense of the world would survive. The only real death would be one in which that whole framework was destroyed, and the subject was confronted with the “white space” of pure potential. This is what the subject slaved to the pleasure principle must avoid at all costs. The well-known tedium of Sadean desire is the inevitable consequence when this impasse is honestly confronted. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 126

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the sacrifice material: giving up the object ’= dying’ rather than dying itself, and the fear of the white space of potential. — connects to: Death converts the for-itself into an in-itself that only others can interpret — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1259; Only the Other’s being, not the for-itself, contains death — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1272; A living subject can resist the interpretive gaze that dead subjects cannot — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 714
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what is ‘the white space of pure potential’ and how does a subject ever confront it rather than only approach it asymptotically?

Broader Connections

• Death converts the for-itself into an in-itself that only others can interpret #contradicts (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1259
• Only the Other’s being, not the for-itself, contains death #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1272
• A living subject can resist the interpretive gaze that dead subjects cannot #contradicts (0.70) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 714