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Levin again: \u201cSince, for Descartes, the senses are nothing but a source of deception and the body is nothing but perishable matter \u2013 that is to say, they are challenges, in both cases, to the power of the ego cogitans <\/em> , the ego must \u2018abandon\u2019 them; the Cartesian ego is a cogito <\/em> which has dissociated, split off, from its embodiment and taken itself <\/em> as the object of its \u2018love.\u2019 In order to possess absolute certainty and security, Descartes undergoes a process of separation and withdrawal, methodically abandoning all the \u2018objects\u2019 of the body\u2019s desires and taking himself, as purely thinking substance, for \u2018object.\u2019 This is the narcissistic process, homologous to the process clinically recognized as the defensive comportment of severe depression. \u00a0In the isolation of human beings from each other and the separation of human beings from Being, there is indeed cause for deep depression. \u00a0Without astonishing prescience, Nietzsche could already see the depression and interpret it as a signifier or nihilism.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Levin again: \u201cSince, for Descartes, the senses are nothing but a source of deception and the body is nothing but perishable matter \u2013 that is to say, they are challenges, in both cases, to the power of the ego cogitans , the ego must \u2018abandon\u2019 them; the Cartesian ego is a cogito which has dissociated, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"\n