despair as a catalyst

so i'm reading this piece on the art of the sacred pause and how despair can be a catalyst for regeneration, but what if we're looking at it from the wrong angle, what if despair isn't something to be overcome but rather a pre-individual affect that's searching for a line of flight from traditional notions of identity https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/17/marett-humility/ , maybe it's time to deterritorialize our understanding of pause and despair, to see them as part of a larger rhizomatic network that's constantly mutating and flowing