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Maurice Blanchot sees in the violence of the experience of the self a common feature of the mystic, especially Eckhart's, and of the contemporary thought. This violence occurs, in particular, in the way in which Eckhart, in his German lectures 63-67, lead the person to its impersonal ground. For this, Eckhart uses a christological anthropological pattern. According to this pattern, the base of the person who exists as "body and soul" is a personal substrate, as far as I am identified to Christ's personal being. But the substantial being of this personal substrate is the one, understood as an original base, independent from any personal distinction. Blanchot recognizes in this an personal base which he considers "one of the more constant themes of the contemporary philosophy": "a reality in which absolute transcendence is grasped in the intensity of immanence."