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Showing posts with label freud. Show all posts
11 Nov 2023

Fragmented Remarks on Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life - Part 1: Lost Futures

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Zero Books (second edition, 2022)     For some reason, the spectral figure of Mark Fisher continues to haunt my imagination [a] .    And, wh...
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29 Oct 2023

My Debt to Jewish-American Humour

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Danny Kaye, Jerry Lewis, and Phil Silvers (as Sgt. Bilko)     I.   Humour, said Freud, is a means of obtaining pleasure from life, no matter...
10 Oct 2023

It's Creepy and It's Kooky, Mysterious and Spooky: Mark Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie (Part 1)

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Front cover image from Mark Fisher's  The Weird and the Eerie (Repeater Books, 2016)     I.    Let me confess from the outset that one ...
25 Sept 2023

A Brief Note on the Queer Gothic, etc.

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Margarita Dadykina : Cathy's Ghost (2019)  Sculpted figure (58 x 20 cm) I.    Sometimes, a literary genre and a theoretical framework c...
11 Sept 2023

On the Manufacture of Good Little Boys (The D. H. Lawrence Birthday Post 2023)

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Arthur Fleck as played by Joaquin Phoenix in Joker (2019)  Click here for the relevant scene on YouTube.   In one of his late articles, D....
26 Mar 2023

In Memory of Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)

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Sarah Bernhardt (aged 21)  Photo by Félix Nadar (1865)   "Mon vrai pays est le plein air et ma vocation est l'art sans contraintes....
17 Mar 2022

I Still Dream of Orgonon: Notes on the Strange Life and Times of Wilhelm Reich (Part 2: The American Years)

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Wilhelm Reich (1890-1957)   Folge der Stimme deines Herzens, auch wenn  sie dich vom Pfad schüchterner Seelen abführt [1]     III. The Amer...