Month: February 2022
‘ It seems to us that without exception the experience and behaviour that gets labelled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unliveable situation’ – R.D Laing One reason I loved the look of the LRMH course was due to its emphasis on the dialogical nature of […]
I am too pure for you or anyone. Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God – Fever 103° The opening line to Plath’s electric poem ‘Fever 103°’ asks: ‘Pure? What does it mean?’. Good question Plath, but if I thought answering that was hard enough, The Bell Jar makes things much worse by […]
Precursor: I read 87 pages of H.G Wells’ The Invisible Man before realising it was in fact Ellison’s Invisible Man I was supposed to be reading. A promising start. Anyway, my idiocy and brashness aside, onto an analysis of the correct novel…. Ellison’s Invisible Man is a ‘difficult’ text on three levels. Firstly, it traces the difficult life of […]
Originally I used this post as a starting foundation for an Invisible Man post but I actually think this is more useful as a general framework for thinking about the relationship between language, reading, psychoanalysis and trauma/crisis. Keeping this here as a reference point and a cheat for giving a little more space to engage with […]
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