The Person Who Forgets Himself

Man Who Forgets Himself, through thought and art It is an objection to life that evolves into certainty, becomes mechanistic, and is confined between solid walls. Leyla Atabay, who strives to bring the ancient wisdom overshadowed by capitalist modernity to light, visits many stops in the history of thought. The building blocks of modernity among the thoughts of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Marx, Foucault, Spinoza, Nietzche, Machiavelli, Lao Tzu, Ibn Khaldun and many other philosophers. It reveals and gives a sign to the person who has forgotten himself to remember himself again.

Atabay calls this sign Xwebûn , which means being yourself, returning to the essence...

        “And at one moment in history, man woke up. A person who becomes self-aware. Adam and Eve tasting the forbidden apple, the primate coming down from the tree, the savage catching fire from Prometheus. The price of awakening was heaven. Thus, man learned that every awakening and every knowledge has a price. Ignorance was bliss, but perhaps knowing is even greater bliss. Wisdom was preferable to ignorance, even if it came hand in hand with pain and sweat. He lay down and ate the fruit of wisdom. He was God who wanted to know himself. He first knew good and evil. The burden placed on his back was heavy. Most of the time he wanted to return to the tree from which he came down, to the heaven from which he was expelled, to the complacency of ignorance. But it was necessary to either discover or build the way back. He couldn't go back to not knowing. It was nature alienated from itself. Nature always wanted to become alienated from itself, and alienated nature always wanted to return to itself. This was the first trouble that left its mark on man's adventure. In order to comprehend good and evil, beauty and ugliness, one had to come out of one's self. A look beyond oneself could make wisdom possible. "When the rupture occurred, the effort to reunite began."