thetic
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(adjective) constituting or beginning with a poetic thesis
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Sartre offers the example of looking through a keyhole: 'I am alone and on the level of a non-thetic self-consciousness [...]'
Being and Nothingness p.283
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Derrida calls this the thetic quality, the ability of words to form an arrow pointing outwards.
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