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Barthes over Sleep: 1. The Neutral Awakening I already wrote about my interest in a certain type of awakening: the white neutral awakening21: for a few seconds, whatever Care [Souci]22 one felt when one went to sleep, pure moment of Carelessness, forgetfulness of evil, vice in its purest state, kind of clear joy in C major; then the earlier Care falls upon you like a great black bird: the day begins. [...] If I had to create a god, I would lend him a ‘slow understanding’: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems.24 People who understand quickly frighten me. [...] 3. Sleep, Love, Benevolence As a utopia, to finish, sleep has to be linked not to one but to two: there can be no solipsistic utopia. 1. Form of this sleep utopia: to sleep together (à deux). That’s to say: recall of dreamless sleep: one doesn’t dream as a twosome (à deux) ≠ the dream separates, solipsizes: it’s the archetype of the soliloquy. To sleep as a couple: in an essential way - if not in its contingent occurrence- dreamless sleep (since dream is narcissistic) > utopia of sleeping as a couple could be desired as absolute act of love and, whatever its realization, as a golden fantasy. Why: sleep thouroughly woven of trust. To sleep: mobilisation of trust. [The Neutral p.37 e.v.] deze tekst kan naar de slaapkamer 21 - See “Aubade” in A Lover’s Discourse, p.203; OC, 3:647 22 - [Oral: Barthes specifies: “Souci [Care] with a capital S.”] 24 - [Oral: “so that problems be clarified,” Barthes adds.]