Paul Manship, Prometheus, Rockefeller Center, NYC
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Part I here, Part II here, Part III here, Part IV here, Part V here, Part VI here, Part VII.1 here
How the Intellect Gets Disconnected From its Social Milieu
Counter-Currents
Tag: Sigmund Freud
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Winslow Homer, The Woodcutter, 1891.
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I read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods sometime in college. I found it more Flannery O’Connor than Marvel Studios, but it’s hardly surprising that the latter interpretation seems to have driven the new television series’ production team (but I haven’t watched). (more…)
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The next day, Melanie attends Cathy’s birthday party, as promised. It is held outdoors at the Brenner home, behind the house. A dozen or more children are present, along with some parents. Annie is also on hand, to help out. Colorful balloons have been strung up, and there is a long table covered in cake and other treats. Mitch and Melanie (still wearing her green suit) have been drinking and decide to leave the party briefly while the children play. (more…)
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1,551 words“On the surface, Bram Stoker was a pillar of late Victorian respectability. . . . But just below the surface, he had something on his mind.”
The preceding sentences are from Christopher Frayling’s BBC documentary on Stoker’s Dracula, which was broadcast on A&E in 1996.
In a more recent television documentary on M. R. James, (more…)
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10,947 wordsLe but de cet article est d’identifier la différence philosophique entre les deux systèmes psychologiques les plus influents de l’âge moderne, ceux de Freud et Jung, afin de pouvoir mieux apprécier leurs différentes implications sociales. (more…)
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1,645 wordsRobert Casillo
The Genealogy of Demons: Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and the Myths of Ezra Pound
Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1988.Robert Casillo’s The Genealogy of Demons is unique in Pound studies because the explicit purpose of it is to give critical insight into Pound’s anti-Semitism, and it accomplishes this by way of multiple techniques, which it must employ, because Pound’s anti-Semitism is prismatic. (more…)
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7,659 wordsLawrence and Psychoanalysis
Without question, the most unusual books D. H. Lawrence ever produced were his two “psychological” works: Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious
(1921) and, especially, Fantasia of the Unconscious
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The following lecture is an introductory treatment of Plato’s dialogue Laches. It was given on December 20, 2000, to a circle of friends and students in Atlanta. (more…)
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2,147 wordsEdited by Kerry Bolton
Editor’s Note:
These aphorisms and notes can be dated ca. late 1945–1948, (more…)
