Things People Keep To Themselves

Become Weaker When Shared

Invite Suspicion

Reward Secrecy

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is, for the Greeks, the idea that things, refusing themselves to us, draw into hiddenness.

The original Greek experience of concealment, Heidegger claims, is that of the things refusing themselves, drawing into hiddenness (pp. 10001).12 (Wrathall 'heidegger on plato' 455)

is always deeply suggestive. The more the object is veiled, the more intensely disturbing is the minimal trace of its remainder.

This is the paradox of surplus-enjoyment at its purest: the more the object is veiled, the more intensely disturbing is the minimal trace of its remainder. (Zizek 'how to read lacan' 87)

is the idea that things, refusing themselves to us, draw into hiddenness.

Concealment is one thing, silence is another. (Law maxim.)

is always short-lived --- murder will out.

is a cause of pleasure --- the commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

is a term referring to how things are not just visible phenomena, but are known to us by the very fact that they are always partly hidden from view.

Things are not just visible phenomena, but are partly hidden from view. We never gain an exhaustive understanding of things, but can only gradually draw them out of concealment by degrees, and this process never comes to an end. The Greek word for truth, aletheia, seems to point toward the same idea, since it means to draw something out of forgottenness.

is not just something that robs or deprives us of beings—it also preserves what is proper to the things.

But concealment is not just something that robs or deprives us of beings—it also preserves what is proper to the things.

concealment, n.All

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