# Paradoxism The conception that language arises as a treatment of paradoxical aspects of existentially formative traumas; the deepest truths of existence can therefore only be expressed as consciously constructed paradoxes, or not at all. From this it follows that the human subject only can exist and be developed as *the paradoxist subject*, which amuses itself with and allows itself to be inspired by processing its own built-in antagonisms. A representative of ancient paradoxism is Heraclitus. Hegel and Lacan devote their entire careers to describing this sole authentic form of subjectivity.