**Links to**: [[07 Phenomenology of Sick Spirit]], [[Cortisol]], [[Principle of Sufficient Cortisol]], [[Sick motherfucker]]. ### [[Retroactive causality]] The wound has _you_, as a side-effect: >“Joe Bousquet must be called a Stoic. He apprehends the wound that he bears deep within his body in its eternal truth as a pure event. To the extent that events are actualized in us, they wait for us and invite us in. They signal us: ‘My wound existed before me, I was born to embody it’ (Bousquet). It is a question of attaining this will that the event creates in us; of becoming the quasi-cause of what is produced within us, the Operator; of producing surfaces and linings in which the event is reflected, finds itself again as incorporeal and manifests in us the neutral splendor which it possesses in itself in its impersonal and preindividual nature, beyond the general and the particular, the collective and the private. It is a question of becoming a citizen of the world.” ([[Deleuze]] on [[Joe Bousquet]]). + Wouter Kusters. + Derrida and the _autoimmune_. + [[Nietzsche]] on [[Pascal]]. + #todo Havi Carel, Canguilhem. %% “A prayer to ask god a reason for illness”: Nietzsche thinks it’s arrogant, because who is Pascal to think that he’s able to communicate, and with what kind of petty God? file:///Users/soniadejager/Downloads/Carel,%20Havi%20-%20Phenomenology%20of%20illness-Oxford%20University%20Press%20(2016).pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8966931/ ________