In Section 22 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), Heidegger continues his discourse on “inceptual thinking.” Inceptual thinking is the “inventive thinking of the truth of beyng,” it “opens up what is most question-worthy,” and it manifests its own “grounding, gathering, and retaining power.” And in the end, “the greatest occurrence, the most intimate event, can still save us from lostness in the bustle of mere incidents and machinations.” Encountering this most intimate event “in the extreme domain of oscillation” is what inceptual thinking makes possible. We branch off from these musings to discuss the ways in which liberalism enforces the realist and moralist rigors of progressive organized social life into the mental realm (which can and should be completely free), the question of placing a mezuzah on the wall as an apotropaic device or simply not believing in “evil spirits,” and some potential problems with L’s therapist’s advice that she should “trust herself.” All while holding our newborn.

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