Breton’s “nothing” urges us to see beyond the “reification” of subjects and objects as they have come to exist in our time or that of others. 51 This necessarily ascetic openness to seeing our world “negated” in this way, this form of losing of our lives for the sake of the inaugural rupture, however, is also a way of gaining a sense of a creative pulsation of life yet to come, indeed a pulsation Breton describes as “the auto- construction of the spirit, the specific autonomy of the [world] soul and of the birth of the world.”