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Rithika Pandey

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Symbolic thinking is not the exclusive privilege of the child, of the poet or of the unbalanced mind: it is consubstantial with human existence, it comes before language and discursive reasoning. The symbol reveals certain aspects of reality the deepest aspects which defy any other means of knowledge. Images, symbols and myths are not irresponsible creations of the psyche; they respond to a need and fulfill a function, that of bringing to light the most hidden modalities of being.

Myths and Symbols

Mircea Eliade

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"I should kill myself": self-serving, reactionary

"we should all kill ourselves": building community and connection, ideologically correct

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Franny Choi, Waste

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Shirin Neshat, All Demons Flee, 1995

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"Y yo estoy enferma. Destruida."

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𝙴𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝙱𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝙴𝚞𝚛𝚢𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚜

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Piège (Jacques Baratier, 1970)

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Once someone said you are this & I never questioned it So when I place hand on face or thigh the direction is always north lay me down I like contact I search my own body for God or someone like her—

— Yesenia Montilla, from "Searching for My Own Body," Muse Found in a Colonized Body

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