Finding Derrida extremely interesting, intriguing beyond words, esp. in Freud and the Writing Pad in Writing and Difference. A colleague pooh-poohed Freud as pass-say, as if he had been outdated, so he chose to teach the Reading & Comp. students Jung, that hare-brained German, in some respects, according to Walter Kaufmann's assesssment of his personality.
As if we humans have progressed, a childish prejudice of the belief in human betterment and evolution. Olson in Max. poems says it is just the preservation of the human species that is the case.
I taught Freud to my the girls in a theater classroom last year, and it was challenging to present Freud's ideas, esp. the Psi-system and the mental apparatus (another prejudice I suppose Olson would call it, as if the mind were a machine)--to girls, some of whom, wrapped up in the black bags, showed avid interest especially when I had them speak on dream interpretation in Emirati culture. Teeth, for ex. being symbolic of certain relatives' deaths depending on the position of the tooth in the mouth. One girl, not covered up, kind of strident, not the usual demur feminine, spoke about how prayer and dream are conjoined in Islam with the time of night before that pre-dawn call to prayer--that, if you have the dream right before that call-to-prayer, then if you pray, the dream will come about, used to get an A on an exam.
Recently was having dreams in which I was at the bank of a stream or river and fishing. I had the pole detached into many segments with the line running through the eyelets and kept taut as is proper to transport a pole unless one is too lazy to detach them. But it was too many parts detached such that I could not put them assemble them together to make the pole. A tree near the bank interferring as well with extending the pole to its whole length.
Reminiscent of that almost pre-historic, post-Diluvian scene in WCW's Paterson where the town is out on the mud flats of a drained lake and wrestling with the huge fish and eels. Reminds me that in Lake Erie there used to be huge fish.
As if we humans have progressed, a childish prejudice of the belief in human betterment and evolution. Olson in Max. poems says it is just the preservation of the human species that is the case.
I taught Freud to my the girls in a theater classroom last year, and it was challenging to present Freud's ideas, esp. the Psi-system and the mental apparatus (another prejudice I suppose Olson would call it, as if the mind were a machine)--to girls, some of whom, wrapped up in the black bags, showed avid interest especially when I had them speak on dream interpretation in Emirati culture. Teeth, for ex. being symbolic of certain relatives' deaths depending on the position of the tooth in the mouth. One girl, not covered up, kind of strident, not the usual demur feminine, spoke about how prayer and dream are conjoined in Islam with the time of night before that pre-dawn call to prayer--that, if you have the dream right before that call-to-prayer, then if you pray, the dream will come about, used to get an A on an exam.
Recently was having dreams in which I was at the bank of a stream or river and fishing. I had the pole detached into many segments with the line running through the eyelets and kept taut as is proper to transport a pole unless one is too lazy to detach them. But it was too many parts detached such that I could not put them assemble them together to make the pole. A tree near the bank interferring as well with extending the pole to its whole length.
Reminiscent of that almost pre-historic, post-Diluvian scene in WCW's Paterson where the town is out on the mud flats of a drained lake and wrestling with the huge fish and eels. Reminds me that in Lake Erie there used to be huge fish.
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