Essay On Non Identifiable Experience

The ‘non-identifiable’ cannot be understood by reason, but only through experience. It is “the putting into question of that which a man knows of being” (Bataille 4) that pushes most people towards desiring to put a label upon such an understanding. When doing such a thing, we are only staying connected to the subjects of the identifiable world when Bataille’s hope is for us to separate ourselves from this realm of existence and understanding.
When allowing ourselves to break free and truly explore within ourselves, we can reach sovereign laughter, non-knowledge, and a presence in no way distinct from absence, where “From that moment begins a singular experience. The mind moves in a strange world where anguish and ecstasy coexist” (Bataille xxxii). Yet how does someone share this experience with another and is there a way for this to allow us to relate to one another? If we are experiencing life and understanding on
It is always experiencing from the outside—of a community that cannot be held within some boundaries or limits. Inner experience for Bataille is a finite experience that promises nothing outside itself. There is no limit based upon language, subject, or anything for that matter; inner experience is a contestation of any limits placed upon our experience. In order to make the passage from inner experience as a contestation of language and subject to inner experience as a community, we must pass through ‘communication.’ Contestation breaks down the limits of the subject and language, and in doing so opens an experience of communication. If we happen to incorporate this ideology into a relationship with another individual, perhaps we can come to some experience where no words can describe the interaction between the two. Perhaps, love is exactly that; perceiving one another through communication of this opening up within inner