The psychoanalyst is sure enough born to be a poet. Last night I’ve come across one piece of fine art in Eliade’s journal. Here’s the fragment full of artistry: “…the definition of man given by an English psychoanalyst: we are born mad; then we acquire morality and become stupid and unhappy; then we die.”
No cognitivist engineering can ever beat this!
Love is something inscrutable that tears you down and builds you up again in three days, all wrong and shining.PS: Hurry, hurry, buy Helena Josefsson’s new single “Never, never”, otherwise you won’t make it, you won’t make it through the day, this day…
I am obsessed with re-doing. I redo canvases, I redo texts, I redo relationships. All my paintings, all my studies, my human connections and even my blog posts are revised, “corrected”, “re-thought” in the name of some annoying, ridiculous sense of “perfection” that ruins all impetuosity and makes me look risibly committed to all sorts of negligible matters.
My dream would be all about being a quitter for a week. You know, just doing small talk, something that I’ve never let myself in. Just for a week. Giving up my absurd demands and contemplate in fascination my impuissance and this oh so naturally flowing world.
PS: Françoise Hardy’s early albums shouldn’t miss from anyone’s collection. It is more than atmosphere music. It is atmosphere inducing music. It makes you feel less ridiculous.
PS2: the sketch above didn’t deserve a name; maybe I’ll turn it into a real painting some day; anyway, today’s painter is coming from the other side: Francis Bacon. It makes you think that grotesqueness and ridiculousness are humans’ second nature. No worries then. As John Cage said, after all, everyone’s in the best seat…
People are less disturbed by cognitive dissonances than they would like to admit. They do all they can to look alarmed, exasperated and vexed when two conflicting thoughts insist to dwell in their heads, but they’d actually manage to live on with their incompatible cognitions, feeling complicated and somehow satisfied.
Just found this site. It has it all. And the list of links left me speechless.