Usually, the conception of the 'world' is understood in ontological terms as the epitome of all things, as the whole of the entirety of being, the horizon of horizons. Even if the theological debates hold that the world is to be understood as a fallen world, this classical notion neverthe-less remains. For example, Eberhard Jüngel writes that the world is a 'world in contradiction', while at the same time he seems to retain a positive connotation of 'world' as a meaningful total-ity. In particular in view of the Christian doctrine of sin, but also in view of the multitude of destructive events taking place today, which reveal an ambiguity in the midst of the world, the question arises as to whether the 'world' in its logic as a whole has to be called into question. My paper is dedicated to this question and attempts to address one aspect of this contradiction in the world by assuming a rift, a chasm in the world as its irreducible negativity. To this end, Jüngel's conception of the 'world in contradiction' is developed in a first step, in which both his philosophical considerations and his hamartiological qualification of 'world' are examined. In a second step, this idea of a fallen world is brought into conversation with philosophical-psychoanalytic approaches that speak in particular of a 'parallax' (Zizek, Finkelde) in order to address this chasm. Finally, the relationship between philosophical and hamartiological analysis is reflected upon and an in-depth theological version of the negativity of the world is formulated.