Posted by floatingbridge on March 24, 2010, at 19:26:42
In reply to Re: talking to my super-ego, posted by Sigismund on March 24, 2010, at 15:18:27
Sigi, I like your statement--very true, of course, though I am not sure I could be so arch. At least yet--give me a bit more therapy....
Well, popular theory explains even maladaptive behavior as serving a purpose--and yes, terrible loneliness--a sense of a guiding self formed in
isolation and fear. Middle class, the class of quiet desperation, Eliot's life measured out in teaspoons, has no exclusive claim to this despair--only, perhaps the education, means, and
freedom from labor to contemplate and express it. But you know that. (We were
fairly poor--which didn't help.)So, I guess I do have an investment--
somehow, the theory goes, it kept me alive--it also was the way I felt attached to people, god, the world. A reason, I suppose I can't read Camus or Kafka--being complicite in a self-punishment whose reason is absurd and lost on time.Oh dear.
My long, windy answer--thank you for asking.
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