ABSTRACT
Nevertheless, there is an immediate difficulty encountered in thinking time, just as with freedom, for when thought tries to take hold of itself, that which it grasps is in time, an object of thought, subjected to freedom. This primary displacement or alienation between thought and being introduces an interval for thought which constitutes its interest. Deprived of its essence, thought invests itself in a simulacrum of itself. Moreover, in so far as the simulation is not merely the sovereign property of a free subject, but is constructed from reality, then it also participates in libidinal, economic and semantic circuits which mediate the subject’s relation to itself. It may be determined by other investments which, through projective identification, are simulated as the subject’s own. One’s most personal desire may be shaped by the most exterior, distant and impersonal of forces. This economic detour within the subject leads us once more to an analysis of the global market in finance capital, posed in terms of syntheses of time. For capital itself has an apparent potency which poses the primary threat to human life and welfare.
