Blood Countess (Fred H. Berger, 1992)

Photo Deborah Turbeville / 1977  

Claus Wickrath (1982)

Capitalism, in other words, inflicts a double injury on depressed people. First, it causes, or contributes to, the state of depression. Second, it erases any form of causality and individualizes the illness, so that it appears as if the depression in question is a personal problem (or property). In some cases, it appears to be your own fault. If you had just lived a better and more active life, made other choices, had a more positive mindset, et cetera, then you would not be depressed. This is the song sung by psychologists, coaches, and therapists around the world: happiness is your choice, your responsibility. The same goes for unhappiness and depression. Capitalism makes us feel bad and then, to add insult to injury, makes us feel bad about feeling bad.

Mikkel Krause Frantzen, A Future with No Future: Depression, the Left, and the Politics of Mental Health (via bergmans-ghost)

This Ego, this living individual would itself be inhabited and invaded by its own specter. It would be constituted by specters of which it becomes the host and which it assembles in the haunted community of a single body. Ego=ghost. Therefore “I am” would mean “I am haunted”: I am haunted by myself who am (haunted by myself who am haunted by myself who am…and so forth). Wherever there is Ego, es spukt, “it spooks.”

Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx (via funeral)

― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

[text ID: Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.]

Toby Dammit (1968, Frederico Fellini)

Marquis de Sade’s Justine (1968) dir. Jess Franco

Salome, 1976, Téo Hernandez

Sayoko Yamaguchi

Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

Possession (1981), directed by Andrzej Zulawski (November 22, 1940 – February 17, 2016).

Cioran / Positivity Culture

Silence Has No Wings / とべない沈黙 (1966) (Full movie)

John Wheeley Gough Gutch, Abbey Ruins, 1858.