Just Another Lost Soul

Michelle. 23. Canada. I enjoy various types of literature, music, and cinema. I'm not really sure what else to say.

[mysharona1987]

[onesunnycloudyday]

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison, Beloved (via onesunnycloudyday)

[forreasonsopaquetome]

The problem with literature, like life, is that in the end people always turn into bastards.

Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives (via forreasonsopaquetome)

[weisstonedimmaculate]

I've screwed up my life

[drnandi]

What a will wants is not an object, an objective or an end. Ends and objects, even motives, are still symptoms. What a will wants, depending on its quality, is to affirm its difference or to deny what differs.

Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy (78)

[freshmoviequotes]

Moonlight (2016)

[wordsnquotes]

Ah, thoughts - they’re not so easy to control.

Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler (via wordsnquotes)

[weisstonedimmaculate]

Things just keep getting worse and worse.

[lacan-psychoananalysisaspraxis]

beautiful soul

(belle âme) The beautiful soul (Ger. schöne Seele) is a stage in the dialectic of self- consciousness which Hegel describes in the Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel, 1807). The beautiful soul projects its own disorder onto the world and attempts to cure this disorder by imposing ‘the law of the heart’ on everyone else. For Lacan, the beautiful soul is a perfect metaphor for the ego; ‘the ego of modern man…has taken on its form in the dialectical impasse of the belle âme who does not recognise his very own raison d’être in the disorder that he denounces in the world’ (Ecrits, 70). In a more extreme way, the beautiful soul also illustrates the structure of paranoiac misrecognition.

The concept of the beautiful soul illustrates the way that neurotics often deny their own responsibility for what is going on around them. The ethics of psychoanalysis enjoin analysands to recognise their own part in their sufferings. Thus when Dora complains about being treated as an object of exchange by the men around her, Freud’s first intervention is to confront her with her own complicity in this exchange (Ecrits, 218–19; see Freud, 1905e).

Evans, Dylan. An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Routledge .1996.

[abstiegundzerfall]

[hirxeth]

Synecdoche, New York (2008) dir. Charlie Kaufman

[girlfromanaturalstate-deactivat]

My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.

Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (via girlfromanaturalstate)

[weisstonedimmaculate]

Happy Birthday DFW

“Welcome to the world of reality—there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth—actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested…True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world”- David Foster Wallace, The Pale King.

[vagabondbohemia]

2/21/2017—Happy Birthday, David Foster Wallace.

He would be 55 years old today.

February 21, 1962 - September 12, 2008

[weisstonedimmaculate]

The overall feeling was that these colorless, empty-eyed, long suffering faces were the face of some death that awaited me long before I stopped walking around.

David Foster Wallace, “The Soul is Not a Smithy”

[weisstonedimmaculate]

Similarly, it is often what makes it so difficult to communicate meaningfully with others in later life. Often, the most vividly felt and remembered elements will appear at best tangential to someone else...

David Foster Wallace, “The Soul is Not a Smithy”

[weisstonedimmaculate]

For it is true that the most vivid and enduring occurrences in our lives are often those that occur at the periphery of our awareness.

David Foster Wallace, “The Soul is Not a Smithy”