Abstract

Augustine's concept of time as "the stretching out of the soul" is generally associated with the toilsome condition of human existence in the "region of dissimilitude." Accordingly, desire exists in the guise of a longing for return to similitude with the divine. With the help of Kafka a new reading of desire and the mystical is offered which takes its point of departure in the desired object and thence traces back the possibilities and impossibilities of achieving the mystical state of true being.

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