The experience of separation and the event of love (theses of Franklin Ankersmit's historical experience and Friedrich Schelling's eternal past)

"[With Ankersmit] the impact of the 'final narrative' created by the historian prepared to commit a sacrifice of dissociating identity turns out to be almost magic: the reprocessing of the traumatic experience in a public form, in the form of joint action and intersubjective praxis becomes impossible and unnecessary. Thus an appeal to the sublime legitimizes conscious or subconscious avoidance of recognition of guilt, for guilt and repentance are only possible in the intersubjective space... For Schelling, genuine separation only takes place when the tragic experience of the past is located in the horizon of freedom, that is, when joint involvement of many in the shared painful past is not only recognized and accepted but is interpreted as a burden and guilt. Here again the existential and personal resource is crucial, but it is invested not in an intensive experience of the tragic grandeur of the epoch, but in a joint ethical self-identification with regard to the horrible past as a situation of choice".