BadFrom Psychopolitics, by Byung-Chul Han:
« It is impossible to subordinate human personhood to the dictates of positivity entirely.
Without negativity, life degrades into ‘something dead’. Indeed, negativity is what keeps life alive. Pain is constitutive for experience (Erfahrung). Life that consists wholly of positive emotions and the sensation of ‘flow’ is not human at all.
The human soul owes its defining tauntness and depth precisely to negativity. »
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