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It is as if we were observing the subject (Word) and object (Body)
being separated. First of all, the separation of the whole (the Word or,
in the Old Testament, the sky), takes place. This separation at the
same time (also) means a connection as a result of a projection. “God
created the heavens and the earth.” That is, “from an intellectual
perspective in the strictest sense this is the original division of an
internally-united object and subject.” (Hölderlin 2000. p.52.) The
subject is the Body, or the Earth.
In Fichtean philosophy, this “Urteil” is the “Ich ist Ich” (I =
I) theorem, which provides ample evidence that we are talking
something originary and indivisible (Ich, I), that we separate the
subject (S = Ich, I) and predicate (P = Ich, I) from each other, as a
result of which the original unit (Ich = Ich) is divided. But at the
same time, consciousness is created through this separation, for
this is the function of consciousness, because the beginning of all
knowledge is the differentiation of the undifferentiable. The moment
of creation. The moment of birth. Everything begins with this, all
knowledge and existence. Separation, division, differentiation from
the same is actually an act of origin, whether we think of biblical
creation (heaven from earth, night from day, word from body) or
Greek (Homeric or Pelasgian) creation myth, in which there is also
talk of separation (land from the water). Everywhere, the basis for
further existence is the separation of the original unit. Genesis is
nothing more than separation.
Plato describes this in the story of the androgyne, in which he
relates the origin of the human as an individual. In the Symposium,
Aristophanes describes that the androgynes were both male and
female united in one body. As he says,
There was one head for the two faces (which looked in opposite ways),
four ears, two sets of genitals and everything else as you might guess
from these particulars. They walked about upright, as we do today,
backwards or forwards as they pleased. Whenever they wanted to
move fast they pushed off from the ground and quickly wheeled over