Septiembre-Octubre de 2022
"We're in the company of Sigmund Freud, and his death drive theory was that the innermost wish of the human organism is to return to the innanimate and you can read that in a kind of very cynical, materialist way, but you could also read it as: the human wants to belong in the world. "Home at last!" Home at last means I am at home in this planet, that has nothing to do with what the kind of programmed, evolved, human expectations about the world are. It is what it is in itself.
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What better way is there to interpret a myth like Eden, the fall from the garden, than to see it as: we've become alienated from the world by the rise of cosnciousness and our innermost wish is to return to that edenic state where we are reconciled and at one with the world."
--J. F. Martel, en Weird Studies, ep. 15 - On Tarkovsky's 'Stalker', part two.
