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subject index  absolute knowledge, 12, 41, 96, 99, 160, 161, 163, 172, 173, 175–78, 204n23, 207n59 abstraction, 4, 20, 22, 23, 28, 30, 32, 37, 39, 41–44, 49, 53, 55, 73, 85, 87, 113, 122, 159, 168 the absurd, 67, 88, 89, 172 acknowledgment. See recognition, acknowledgment action, 10, 39, 40, 42, 46–48, 52, 111, 171, 173, 177 the aesthetic, 7, 67, 68, 70, 71, 78, 80, 158. See also art, the artist alienation, estrangement, 50, 104, 108, 118, 120, 122, 173–76 aloneness, loneliness, 20, 48, 62, 83, 116, 135–37, 153, 179. See also solitude animals, 17, 20, 24, 57, 118 art, the artist, 7, 15, 69, 70, 79, 80; art for art’s sake, 7, 51. See also the aesthetic assertion, 4, 11, 31, 33–35, 93, 97, 99, 111, 166 authority, 1, 9, 12, 30, 31, 35, 61, 62, 65–67, 80, 96, 99, 132, 135, 138, 139, 149, 151, 152, 155, 160–63, 167, 168, 171, 176 authorship, the author, passim. death of the author, 9, 12, 99, 110, 124, 129–36, 138, 139, 141–43, 227 145, 146, 149, 150, 152, 154, 156, 157, 161–63, 166, 167, 169–72, 176, 178, 179, 181 the ethics of authorship, xi, 3, 4, 6–9, 18, 19, 25, 26, 32, 35, 38, 40, 60, 74, 87, 119, 135, 138, 142, 151, 155, 169, 176, 181 resurrection of the author, 131, 146, 149, 151, 154 the beautiful soul, 20, 36, 37, 116, 125, 178 the beyond, 41, 50, 89, 90 the body, 115, 156 the boring, 68–70 the child, the infant, 45, 46, 108, 135, 174 Christ, 150 Christianity, 31, 34, 35, 113, 115 communication, 3, 4, 9–11, 16, 19, 25, 26, 35, 37, 59, 62, 65, 66, 71, 81, 113, 119, 120, 126, 129, 138–40, 142, 144, 162, 166, 176 direct, 4, 25, 26, 30, 31, 34, 57, 59, 60, 72, 83, 84, 113, 137, 144 indirect, 3, 10, 11, 16, 25–28, 30, 31, 33–35, 37, 57–61, 66, 67, 71, 74–79, 81, 82, 84, 113, 119, 126, 129, 134 228 ‡ subject index concealment, disguise, 18, 25, 31, 43, 47, 58, 59, 61–65, 67, 72, 77, 81, 83, 84, 95, 102, 126, 128, 129, 131, 132, 134–38, 142, 145, 155, 162, 192, 202n83. See also masks contradiction, 17, 21, 73, 75, 104, 107, 125, 155, 160, 176 cure, 11, 24, 54, 56, 89, 90, 102, 103, 106, 109, 110, 112–15, 117–21, 125–27, 160, 171, 178. See also talking cure; therapy death, 110, 114, 117, 118, 124, 129, 132, 134, 141, 142, 146, 157, 158, 160, 167, 169, 172–74, 176, 178, 179, 181 of the author. See authorship, the author drive, 114 of God, 134 deception, 10, 25, 26, 31, 43, 59, 60, 65, 67, 71, 72, 74, 76–78, 81, 83, 84, 119, 126, 129, 132, 136, 138, 155, 192n16 desire, 24, 29, 45, 49, 50, 59, 60, 69, 70, 71, 77, 83, 106–8, 110–12, 115–18, 126, 151, 155, 163, 171, 173, 189n6, 196n37, 197n40 despair, 31–33, 44, 50, 89, 90, 95, 102, 112–14, 123, 127, 172, 181. See also the unhappy consciousness difference, 2, 36, 40, 123, 125, 137, 160, 161, 175, 176, 179 disappearance, vanishing (of the author), 5, 9, 12, 14, 19, 26–28, 30, 37, 59–61, 65–67, 77–79, 81, 98, 129, 131, 132, 142, 145, 156, 162, 163, 168, 170, 177 disguise. See concealment, disguise Don Giovanni, Don Juan, 21, 22, 24, 25, 67, 69, 70, 79 dreams, 22, 55, 59, 72, 76, 112, 142, 153 either/or, 2, 3, 7, 40, 134 the Enlightenment, 177 estrangement. See alienation, estrangement ethics, the ethical, 6, 7, 9, 12, 25, 27, 28, 36, 49, 51, 61, 67, 77, 78, 81–84, 97, 113, 116, 132, 139, 141, 143, 144, 155, 156, 186n19. See also authorship: the ethics of authorship evil, 47, 125 expression, 3, 17, 20, 22, 35, 91, 116, 118, 125, 139, 142, 147, 178, 181, 196n34, 197n40 extraterrestrialism, 41, 43, 53, 85, 90 faith, 5, 11, 27, 31, 50, 66, 67, 89, 102, 113–15, 118, 126, 134, 172 the Fall, 174, 175 the familiar, 33, 86, 164 fantasy, the fantastic, 4, 30, 37, 52, 55, 56, 63, 76, 80, 84, 87, 89, 108–10, 116, 120, 122, 145, 153–55, 157, 172 the feminine, 22–24, 73, 76, 77, 136, 151, 192n12, 197n40. See also woman, women forgiveness...

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