Sublimity, Superlimity, Will

If 'subliminal' means 'below the threshold of consciousness', 'superliminal' can mean 'above the threshold of consciousness'.  Accordingly,  'superlimity' expresses the latter better than does the common 'sublimity'.  Now, operations typically classified as 'intellectual' can be conceived as functioning to extend the range of consciousness via generalizations.  Unfortunately, that function is lost in both the Empiricist interpretation of those operations as mere abstractions, and the Rationalist ontologization of them, each of which severs them from immediate perception.  The result is a Dualism to which corresponds the combination of Pain and Pleasure in Kant's concept of Sublimity--Pain in the immediate awareness of the immensity of size and power of environing Nature, Pleasure in the rational idea of a Totality that is greater than that immensity.  But, restoring the original function of the Intellect re-establishes a continuity between Particularity and Totality, thereby eliminating the painful component of Sublimity.  At the same time, what is truly Superliminal in any experience can emerge--Will, which surpasses, and is absolutely incommensurate with, even any mere idea of a Totality, at, for example, the Dionysian events described in Birth of Tragedy, the participatory essence that Kant, as a detached observer, misses.