Let’s take the case of the “woman question” (to use this old, totally inappropriate designation): philosophically, it can be resolved neither through a new (post- patriarchal) symbolization of femininity nor through the elevation of woman into an entity which resists symbolization, into the “indivisible remainder” of the process of symbolization. This second path was taken by F. W. J. Schelling, who “knew that one cannot derive an expression like ‘woman’ from principles. What cannot be derived one should narrate.” 1 Schelling’s break out of the logical structure of reality (which can be presented as a notional system) into the Real of primordial drives (where there is no deduction, one can only tell a story)—i.e., his move from logos to mythos—is thus
also an assertion of the Feminine. Schelling extrapolated this line of
thought to its extreme: his premise (or, rather, the premise that Peter
Sloterdijk imputes to him) is that the female orgasm, this most ecstatic
moment of sexual pleasure (as the ancient Greeks already knew), is the
high point of human evolution. Sloterdijk even claims that its experience
plays the role of providing the ontological proof of god: in it, we humans
come into contact with the Absolute. Schelling tried to break out of the
idealist closed circle, bringing in matter, organism, life, development, so
he was attentive not only to the purely logical mind but also to what
goes on in the bodily sphere, sexuality, with human evolution: bliss is
not just the Aristotelian thought thinking itself, but also a body enjoying
itself to the almost unbearable maximum. 2

Female orgasm as a new version of the ontological proof of god . . .
instead of dismissing this as a version of the obscurantist New Age
speculation (which it is!), we should undermine it from within: the
description of intense sexual act as the experience of the highest and
most intense unity of Being is simply wrong, it obfuscates the dimension
of failure, mediation, gap, antagonism even, which is constitutive of
human sexuality. This minimal refl exivity that cuts from within every
immediate orgasmic One is the topic of the present book.