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Subjective truth and our existential journey

  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 d...