Talk:Limit-experience

So what is a "limit-experience"?
I don't think that the article explains it good enough. So I'm interested in further resources on this and an expansion of its explanation in the article.

Here's a few more specific questions:


 * >A limit experience breaks the subject from itself.


 * Sounds much like the psychedelic culture's depersonalization and ego death. Are those related or maybe even subordinate? (See: Psychonautics)


 * >It was at the edge of limits where the ability to comprehend experience breaks down that Bataille sought to live.


 * Shouldn't this say where Bataille sought to live?


 * >the point of life which lies as close as possible to the impossibility of living, which lies at the limit or the extreme


 * In what sense "impossible"? By biological means (e.g. starvation) or otherwise?


 * >A limit-experience is a type of action or experience which approaches the edge of living in terms of its intensity and its seeming impossibility


 * Again in what sense "impossible" (or is it rather "unlikely" / "abnormal" [in the sense of human experience]?)? And for instance would war-experiences be considered limit-experiences for their intensity?


 * >Classical instances of limit experiences include abandonment, fascination, suffering, madness, and poetry [...]


 * >Limit-experience is a type of somaesthetic "edgework" that goes on to test the limits of ordered reality


 * So are "limit-experiences" altered states of consciousness evoked by intense, abnormal experiences that are not evoked by psychedelic drugs?

--Fixuture (talk) 22:31, 22 March 2015 (UTC)