%0 Journal Article
%T The Creative Act of the Writer-Painter
%A Klettke, Cornelia
%J Cahiers ERTA
%V 2023
%R 10.4467/23538953CE.23.006.17568
%N Numéro 33
%P 139-157
%K simulation, error as intentional, unique sign, incommunicable phantasm, simulacre
%@ 2300-4681
%D 2023
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/pierre-klossowski-lacte-createur-de-lecrivain-peintre
%X Klossowski, who had originally started as a religious seeker of truth in his younger years, will – after his « reversal » – feel himself invested with the role of a « heretic » struggling with the libidinous search for truth. Even as the creator of a perverted metaphysics, he remains a seeker of the revelation of being, now in the role of the divine « adversary » who, thrown back on himself, tends to imitate a religious mystic. The divine is replaced by the whispers of the demon, which Klossowski experiences as « la complicité d'une force "démonique" » in the creation of his artworks. The Diana myth becomes a parable for the act of artistic creation. Sexuality, understood as the primordial ground of creative force that shapes the signe unique, the phantasm, shifts metaphysics to « phantasmaphysics » (Foucault), in which the mystery of the divine is exposed as a delusion (Wahnbild).