Subliminal, Nothingness, Reason

Pursuing the accepted meaning of 'sublime', Kant arrives at Reason, the source of the concept of the 'absolutely great', i. e. Totality.  In contrast, unexplored is the converse, the Subliminal, with which he is surely familiar, since Leibniz considers it in several places, under the rubric 'minute perceptions'.  Now, the corresponding 'absolutely small' can mean only one thing--Nothingness, which is represented as a quantity in the Calculus that Leibniz designs to examine the role of minute perceptions in Physics.  But, while Totality can be ascribed to Reason, Nothingness seems to elude the latter, as subsequent Existentialists have asserted as a cardinal principle.  So, a study of the Subliminal seems to lead to e. g. a Dread from which Kantian Reason offers no escape.