ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how Thelema is a model of this expanded subjectivity. It shows how within the space of the poem it offers an account of the intrauterine experience, that mysterious existence gestured at and immediately foreclosed in Freudian's account of the uncanny. Bracha Ettinger's theory of subjectivity hinges upon her careful philological recuperation of 'matrix' - which refers to both an object and a subjectivizing process. The matrixial functions as a counter-philosophy to traditional psychoanalysis in light of its reworking of 'the feminine', an element typically set against the masculine, or as the place of birth and death. This contentious poem, and first illuminated work of William Blake's, remains as 'immensely important' today as Helen Bruder claimed over a decade ago, not only in light of theory's turn towards ecology or 'Life', but also for thinking, more generally, another 'land unknown', that is to say, those complex models of subjectivity that exceed our traditional categories of thought.
