In short, above and beyond the chaos and upheaval of left versus right and all else for that matter is the subconscious or unconscious fantasy and wish and how the inability to bridge the gap between the fantasy and wish of unconscious life on one hand and the perfunctory and routine normalcy and grim reality … Continue reading “Zikrayet” (Third Note of the Review)
Tag: psychoanalysis
Fourteenth Note to “Jew Hater”
Fear-mongering and terrorizing poor people and students while losing your mind over the same decadence and luxury which you campaigned against is not what anyone voted for. It’s better for everyone to just revert to the basic pattern, master trend, episteme, and oeuvre which brings at least a semblance of normalcy and stability to civic … Continue reading Fourteenth Note to “Jew Hater”
Forepleasure
Imagination is everything in social life. To borrow from Freud: “The realm of imagination was seen to be a ‘reservation’ made during the painful transition from the pleasure principle to the reality principle in order to provide a substitute for instinctual satisfactions which had to be given up in real life. The artist, like the neurotic, … Continue reading Forepleasure
Wish
“All I know is that I do not know.” Perhaps the most memorable quote from Socrates, which in turn explains our state of mind and our overall reality once we arrived at the absurdity of the world scene in the previous piece. But with absurdity consuming all else, including our social reality, all we are … Continue reading Wish
Humble
And if love and hate is the basic polarity which is at the heart of mental and psychic life, then what does love actually mean? How do we define and explain love? In essence, there are two kinds of love, namely, self-love or love for a love object. The whole process of love, and love … Continue reading Humble
Adam A. Azim 