“…one is compelled to take on step further and to conceive of radical Evil as something that ontologically precedes Good by way of opening up the space for it. That is to say, what, precisely, is Evil? Evil is another name for the ‘death-drive,’ for the fixation on some Thing which derails our customary life-circuit. By way of Evil man wrests himself from animal instinctual rhythm, i.e., Evil introduces the radical reversal of the ‘natural’ relationship….
…The choice between Good and Evil is thus in a sense not the true, original choice: the truly first choice is the choice between (what will later be perceived as) yielding to one’s pathological leanings and choosing radical Evil, i.e. an act of suicidal egoism which ‘makes place’ for the Good, i.e., which overcomes the domination of pathological natural impulses, by way of a purely negative gesture of suspending the life-circuit.”
