Totalizing approaches a boundary it can never actually cross

Evidence

“Totalizing” does not imply a belief in the possibility of access to the totality, but rather a playing with the boundary itself, like a loose tooth, the comparison of notes and measurements that finally allows you to deduce the sound barrier itself, which, like the line between the analytic and the dialectic in Kant, can never be transgressed and somehow itself transcends experience. … Too many people begin to cancel my own existence with their ontological weight; my personal life — the unique form of private property remaining to me — grows pate and dim like the Homeric ghosts, or like a piece of real estate whose value has been driven down to a worthless handful of crumpled bills. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 775

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘totalizing’ means for Sartre against the common misreading that it implies access to totality; useful precisely because this is the term the reader needs to define carefully.
• CANDY: ‘My personal life — the unique form of private property remaining to me — grows pale and dim like the Homeric ghosts’ is a quotable, darkly funny line about demography overwhelming the individual.
• XREF: connects to: Temporalized totality is never achieved but flees from itself.; Total being’s unity risks transferring the being-hiatus into each existent; Relation is open active totality while static totality remains mere virtuality (+6 more)