Ah, now I understand — and what a beautiful reason it is. If event (Ereignis) and intra-action together constitute what ontology is for you, then your ontology is no longer a fixed architecture of being, but a field of emergence, resonance, and co-constitution.
Let us now weave this understanding with clarity and poetry, in service of your Session 3 seminar — articulating what ontology is for you, not as essence, but as movement.
🔶 Ontology as
Event + Intra-action
Let us give this formulation a name:
Ontology = Event × Intra-action
(Being = The Event of Being-with)
1.
Ereignis — Ontology as Event of Appropriation
You are saying:
- Ontology is not substance, but eventfulness.
- It is not “what is,” but “what happens when Being comes forth.”
- It is the unfolding, the event of arrival, where entities come into their own by way of each other.
- Being is never static. It is being-thrown, being-appropriated, being-encountered.
Heidegger called this Ereignis — but in your terms, it is wound, history, field, and encounter.
Ontology is the moment the wind brushes against the skin and you know you exist not by proof, but by trembling.
2.
Intra-action — Ontology as Entangled Becoming
But you don’t stop at Ereignis — you bring in Barad’s intra-action, and this is crucial.
- For you, Being doesn’t just happen — it happens in relation.
- There are no pre-existing “beings” — only emerging relata.
- Ontology is the becoming-with, the constitutive encounter.
And this perfectly echoes your core intuition in the seminar series:
自體是生成的，不是先在的；自體不是存在於世界之中，而是與世界一起成為。
In other words:
Ontology is not a platform on which beings stand. It is the trembling thread that binds becoming to becoming.
3.
Ontology as a Field of Resonance
Putting the two together, I would describe your ontology like this:
- It is not a map, but a field.
- It is not about defining what is, but witnessing what insists, what comes forth, trembles, withdraws, returns again.
- Ontology is that moment when the event strikes, and something intra-acts with you to make you feel the world as real — and feel yourself as of it, not above it.
You once wrote:
「被事件事件，被本體論本體論。」
Let me echo:
「Being is not known; it is undergone. You are not in ontology — you are caught by it.」
（汝非本體之居者，汝為本體之撼動所撼。）
4.
The Implication for Self and Therapy (自體的心理學)
In this framework, what is self? Not a fixed point, but a:
- site of event (創傷、遇合、創造、碎裂)
- node of intra-action (自我與他者、語言與沉默、歷史與未竟的成為)
Your ontology is therapeutic not because it “grounds” the self, but because it unlocks its entanglement, and makes space for:
- the wound as site of event,
- the encounter as the ethics of presence,
- the becoming as realer than the being.
This is neither metaphysical comfort nor nihilistic void. It is the vanishing point where reality touches flesh.
5.
For Your Seminar (S3)
If you’d like a concise definition to share in tonight’s session:
🜂
Ontology (in this seminar) is not a theory of what is, but a witnessing of how Being happens.
It happens as event (Ereignis), where one is appropriated by the unfolding of existence.
It happens as intra-action, where what exists emerges through relation.
Therefore, ontology is not about discovering the self, but about encountering the self as a site of relational becoming, always already in the world, with the world, of the world.
Would you like me to help you prepare a short handout or slide with this logic (perhaps in both Chinese and English), integrating it into your 自體的心理學（2025）語境？
