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expenditure |
 | | Expenditure is always "in excess" for Bataille, which means that when an isolated being communicates, as for example the mystic proclaims that "the spirit of God flows like water", the extensive differential between energy required and energy expended is greater than the communication achieved. |
 | | Expenditure affirms negativity, death, perversion, subtefuge; it gives an extra impetus to transgression such that it may transcribe itself, ie it is not necessarily the object of the transgression. |
 | | The death drive of Freud is set against the expenditure of Bataille:- "Instead of establishing death as the regulator of tensions and an equilibrium function, as the economy of the pulsion, Bataille introduces it in the opposite sense, as the paroxysm of exchanges, superabundance and excess". |
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