ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author takes shape through his trying to articulate an answer to the question of whether the void is a primary or secondary experience. The experience of the void is a primary experience and it represents what Lacan would have called an experience of the "real". The capacity to experience the void is dependent on having had a certain degree of consciousness, or awareness, of self and other so that one can experience their loss. And similarly the capacity to obliterate the void or to lose one's fear of it, is also dependent on being conscious of both oneself and the other. Embraced by that consciousness and the feeling that the other has us in mind too, we may be able to willingly let go enough to glimpse, from our contained finitude, some of the infinite space and possibilities for being that make up the void.
