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Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror

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I would strike Jung out on 3 pitches. Slider outside. He feels like hes drowning. Curveball in the dirt of course he’s chasing it. The Red Book sucked kill yourself. And Bang 97 inside corner. Youre out. You were always out. Youve been out since the day you were born.

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Joan Copjec, “Imagine There’s No Woman”

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Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression & Melancholia

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“Absent from other people’s meaning, alien, accidental with respect to naive happiness, I owe a supreme, metaphysical lucidity to my depression. On the frontiers of life and death, occasionally I have the arrogant feeling of being witness to the meaninglessness of Being, of revealing the absurdity of bonds and beings.

My pain is the hidden side of my philosophy, its mute sister. In the same way Montaigne’s statement “To philosophize is to learn how to die” is inconceivable without the melancholy combination of sorrow and hatred — which came to a head in Heidegger’s care and the disclosure of our “being-for-death.” without a bent for melancholia there is no psyche, only a transition to action or play.

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My depression points to my not knowing how to lose [something essential] – I have perhaps been unable to find a valid compensation for the loss? It follows that any loss entails the loss of my being — and of Being itself. The depressed person is a radical, sullen atheist.”

- Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia

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the Lovestoneites’ tribute to Freud on his death

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“Trauma is not a question of whether there is or is not representation but rather the question of whether there will or will not be (the possibility of) history.” - Cathy Caruth

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Anne Dufourmantelle, In Praise of Risk