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elixir

Gust of Wind with Setting Sun Ferdinand du Puigaudeau — 1900 ca

#art

bunneis-archive

Endless Ghibli 3/? - Porco Rosso (1992)

#porco rosso

cosmonautroger

Milton Glaser, Therapy With A Tomato, 1978

#art

gothiccoherence

Ursula le Guin

#ursula....#prose #poetry #why not both

shisasan

March 19, 1931 The early diary of Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977

#prose

kaalbela

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor and founder of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photographed by Robert Henri, 9 January 1975.

#god #photography

girlfictions

joan didion, “on self-respect”

#prose

determinate-negation

But in thus emphasizing the unconscious in mental life we have conjured up the most evil spirits of criticism against psychoanalysis. Do not be surprised at this, and do not suppose that the resistance to us rests only on the understandable difficulty of the unconscious or the relative inaccessibility of the experiences which provide evidence of it. Its source, I think, lies deeper. In the course of centuries the naive self-love of men has had to submit to two major blows at the hands of science. The first was when they learnt that our earth was not the centre of the universe but only a tiny fragment of a cosmic system of scarcely imaginable vastness. This is associated in our minds with the name of Copernicus, though something similar had already been asserted by Alexandrian science. The second blow fell when biological research destroyed man’s supposedly privilege place in creation and proved his descent from the animal kingdom and his ineradicable animal nature. This revaluation has been accomplished in our own days by Darwin, Wallace and their predecessors, though not without the most violent contemporary opposition. But human megalomania will have suffered its third and most wounding blow from the psychological research of the present time which seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master in its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on unconsciously in its mind. We psychoanalysts were not the first and not the only ones to utter this call to introspection ; but it seems to be our fate to give it its most forcible expression and to support it with empirical material which affects every individual. Hence arises the general revolt against our science, the disregard of all considerations of academic civility and the releasing of the opposition from every restraint of impartial logic. And beyond all this we have yet to disturb the peace of this world in still another way, as you will shortly hear.

Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

#that's right #prose

killbilled

“But to some one I must now entrust my people that I leave behind, to rule them in my place. Which of you will stay?” No man spoke. “Is there none whom you would name? In whom do my people trust?” “In the House of Eorl,” answered Hama. “But Eomer I cannot spare, nor would he stay,” said the king; “and he is the last of that House.” “I said not Eomer,” answered Hama. “And he is not the last. There is Eowyn, daughter of Eomund, his sister. She is fearless and high-hearted. All love her. Let her be as lord to the Eorlingas, while we are gone.”

“It shall be so,” said Theoden. “Let the heralds announce to the folk that the Lady Eowyn will lead them!”

- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

#fearless and high-hearted #the latter particularly is such an aspiration #lord of the rings

letsbeapoemtogether

Sunrise, Louise Glück

#poetry

the-most-sublime-fool

Then, too, at sea—to use a homely but expressive phrase—you miss a man so much. A dozen men are shut up together in a little bark, upon the wide, wide sea, and for months and months see no forms and hear no voices but their own, and one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb. There are no new faces or new scenes to fill up the gap. There is always an empty berth in the forecastle, and one man wanting when the small night watch is mustered. There is one less to take up the wheel, and one less to lay out with you upon the yard. You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss.

—a sailor's diary entry, on losing a shipmate, ca. 1834 (from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.)

#prose #I think about this a lot