Talk:Limit-experience

So what is a "limit-experience"?

I don't think that the article explains it good enough. So I'm interested in further resources on this and an expansion of its explanation in the article.

Here's a few more specific questions:

• >A limit experience breaks the subject from itself.
  

Sounds much like the psychedelic culture's depersonalization and ego death. Are those related or maybe even subordinate? (See: Psychonautics)

• >It was at the edge of limits where the ability to comprehend experience breaks down that Bataille sought to live.
  

Shouldn't this say where Bataille sought to live?

• >the point of life which lies as close as possible to the impossibility of living, which lies at the limit or the extreme
  

In what sense "impossible"? By biological means (e.g. starvation) or otherwise?

• >A limit-experience is a type of action or experience which approaches the edge of living in terms of its intensity and its seeming impossibility
  

Again in what sense "impossible" (or is it rather "unlikely" / "abnormal" [in the sense of human experience]?)? And for instance would war-experiences be considered limit-experiences for their intensity?

• >Classical instances of limit experiences include abandonment, fascination, suffering, madness, and poetry [...]
  

>Limit-experience is a type of somaesthetic "edgework" that goes on to test the limits of ordered reality

So are "limit-experiences" altered states of consciousness evoked by intense, abnormal experiences that are not evoked by psychedelic drugs?

--Fixuture (talk) 22:31, 22 March 2015 (UTC)