“Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land?" Herman Melville (Moby Dick) “It is possible that here we are facing a fourth ‘narcissistic wound’ namely that even the intelligence of which we are so proud, though analysts, is not our property but must be replaced or regenerated through the rhythmic outpouring of the ego into the universe, which alone is all knowing and therefore intelligent. But more of this another time.” Sandor Ferenczi (Diaries) "The … [Read more...]
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Robbing Your Own Grave: Intro to Cinema, part one
September 8, 2024 by 6 Comments
"a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning." William Carlos Williams (Landscape with the Fall of Icarus) "The growing relevance of technology in artworks must not become a motive for subordinating them to that type of reason that produced technology and finds its continuation in it." Theodor Adorno (Aesthetic Theory) "the opposite of play is not serious occupation but — reality.” Sigmund Freud (The Relation of the Poet to Daydreaming, 1908) I wanted to look at the growing irrationality of the West today by or through the lens of American cinema. And to a degree through the critical analysis of several different films. The first film in question is The Shining … [Read more...]
