Pre-understanding and the actor
The pre-understanding construct belongs to the actor. It gives him profile and character. It is a body he has constructed for himself to live through, and which he cannot easily change. However, it is not the actor himself. The actor as a subject lives in this house, which structures his life world. He acts through its various facilities. He makes it come alive.
All the actors love and his will to live unfold in these frameworks, these chambers, which are meant to do one thing only: enable the actor to protect his love and his will to live - that which provides his life with meaning, happiness and satisfaction. The pre-understanding construct provides – or rather is meant to provide – a safe space of meaning, and thus keep nihilism, the swallowing gap of nothingness at a distance.
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