I love to see the big white moon,    A-shining in the sky; I love to see the little stars,    When the shadow clouds go by.  I love the rain drops falling   On my roof-top in the night; I love the soft wind’s sighing,    Before the dawn’s gray light.  I love the deepness of the blue,    In my Lord’s heaven above;  But better than … Continue reading “My Loves” by Langston Hughes →

https://videopress.com/v/sSGJLi6t?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true #Eurovision2024. Original Artist: Ahmad Zahir. Rough Translation: "I will always love you, I will love you until the very end. Until the day I die. And you will never find anyone who will love you as much as I do. Your beautiful long hair is always out now. Try making it shorter, and it … Continue reading “Dostat Darom Hamesha” – دوستت دارم همیشه همیشه →

Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you  As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;  That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend  Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.  I, like an usurp'd town to another due,  Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;  Reason, … Continue reading “Batter my heart, three-person‘d God” by John Donne →

In reality, and as Freud argued, the boundaries between the various strata of the psyche are “superficial.” Which means that the unconscious is in many cases conscious. And what emanates first and foremost from the unconscious and into consciousness is “object-cathexes” or a fixation on a sexual object. Detachment from the sexual object is the … Continue reading Fifth footnote to the post titled “The Doctrine of Repression” →

Prohibition owes its existence to the impulse. Nor does prohibition abolish the impulse. It can only repress it. All of which then leads to psychic conflict. To borrow from Freud, and to sum it all up: “The prohibition owes its strength - its compulsive character - to its association with its unknown counterpart, the hidden … Continue reading Fourth footnote to the post titled “The Doctrine of Repression” →