“Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night’s old smoke, alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of Breakfast: flowery, permeating, surprising, more than the color of winter sunlight, taking over not so much through any brute pungency or volume as by the high intricacy to the weaving of its molecules, sharing the conjuror’s secret by which—though it is not often Death is told so clearly to fuck off—the living genetic chains prove even labyrinthine enough to preserve some human face down ten or twenty generations . . . so the same assertion-through-structure allows this war morning’s banana fragrance to meander, repossess, prevail.”

-Gravity’s Rainbow

HE PUNCHED THE KING CRIMSON MOONFACE INTO A WEBCAM MASK MAKER HOLY SHIT

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While both hysterical and obsessional neurotics try to find a way to adapt themselves to this desire, hysterical subjects generally feel the need to meet the desire of others (with the accompanying feeling of “it’s never enough” and the keep-ontrying), while obsessional subjects try everything to keep this desire at bay, out of the fear of complying too much to it, which – in their experience – would mean they would disappear as a separate individual.

http://episjournal.com/journal-2014/the-body-in-obsessional-neurosis

A century ago, Freud included psychoanalysis as one of what he described as the three ‘narcissistic illnesses’. First, Copernicus demonstrated that the Earth moves around the Sun, thereby depriving humans of their central place in the universe. Then Darwin demonstrated that we are the product of evolution, thereby depriving us of our privileged place among living beings. Finally, by making clear the predominant role of the unconscious in psychic processes, Freud showed that the ego is not master even in its own house. Today, scientific breakthroughs seem to bring further humiliation: the mind is merely a machine for data-processing, our sense of freedom and autonomy merely a ‘user’s illusion’. In comparison, the conclusions of psychoanalysis seem rather conservative.

Slavoj Zizek: Freud Lives!  http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n10/slavoj-zizek/freud-lives

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