Lacan's phrase, "Each one achieves the truth he is able to bear", carries a depth that leads us to reflect on the subjective nature of truth and the human capacity to face it. In a world where reality is often complex and painful, the truth we see becomes a kind of distorted mirror through which we incorporate into our existence only what we are ready to accept.
This truth, then, is
neither universal nor absolute, having nothing to do with the Truth (aletheia)
that Jesus refers to as liberating (John 8:31-32). Therefore, this subjective
truth, so to speak, is shaped according to our emotional, cognitive, and
affective limits within our intersubjective universe. From this we discern that
it is not this truth that adapts to us, but we who adapt to what we perceive of
it through our senses, filtering what we can bear without collapsing as
subjects. This process is undeniably reveals the hermeneutic fragility of the
human being, who walks on the threshold between desire and knowledge, in a
fearful mediation carried out by the fear of the unknown.
In this way, Lacan's
analytical phrase suggests that the confrontation of subjective truth is an
intimate, distressing and solitary process, where the In-sich-sein
(being-in-itself) is faced with its own frailties and abyssal fears, in the
background. We are, then, prisoners of our own truths, living under the shadow,
the domain of what we can bear. And so the truth becomes a burden, but a burden
that, I understand, we need to carry, accept and integrate into our existence.
SDG.
Dr. Marcus King Barbosa
– Public Theologian, Reformed Baptist Pastor and Philosopher of Subjectivity
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