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Tag Archives: Freud
Fine Young Cannibals
STUDENT: I am inclined to say that Greenberg would think that all of the music here is kitsch, because it is too blatantly emotional. All of this music is extremely beautiful, but it is also very very emotive; I almost … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Clement Greenberg, Freud, Jackson Pollock, Theodor Adorno
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Surviving One’s Own Death – “The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk.” — G.W.F. Hegel
Huge props for Malabou (‘the best book on Hegel in twenty years’) offered by Slavoj Žižek. His discussion of Malabou begins at 5’20″. Douglas Crimp’s writings on the origin and purpose of the art museum (click), as a public institution, … Continue reading
History & Trauma ~ Civilization & Its Discontents
“I shall not recapitulate the disasters of the Alexandrian library,” Edward Gibbon writes in the fifty-first chapter of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The historian resolves, with these words, to remain silent about … Continue reading
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Tagged Catastrophe, Catharine Malabou, Derrida, Freud, Plasticity, Trauma
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“Living In The Land of The Lost”
The illusion of the freedom of the ego can be better understood by reviewing to the notion of the automaton. Remember that Descartes was able to gain mastery over the res extensa by declaring it to be purely passive and … Continue reading
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Tagged Apparatus, Cinema, Derrida, Eadweard Muybridge, Editing, Freud, Fundamental Fantasy, Mystic Writing Pad
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Landscape and The Architecture of Perception
Below is a theoretical statement which, from Deleuze’s perspective, would be almost exactly analogous to Freud’s reductive reading of the Wolf-man. Though unlike Freud, it is willing to acknowledge, at least momentarily, the apparent multiplicity of nature; having made this … Continue reading
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Tagged Clause Levi-Strauss, Freud, Psychoanalysis, Stratification, Synthesis
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A “Beautiful” Mind
If we wish to discern whether anything is beautiful or not, we do not refer the representation of it to the object by means of understanding with a view to cognition, but by means of the imagination (acting perhaps in … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Experimental Psychology, Freud, Immanuel Kant
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L’Hainamoration – The Love (Whom I Hate)
Eadweard Muybridge Woman Spanking a Child 1884-85 Lancelot / Masochism Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Department of English and Program in the Human Sciences The George Washington University Through a script composed and agreed to in advance, a man and a woman … Continue reading
