"I would say that the creative act is released by an
experience
of
depression without which we would not call into
question the stability
of
meaning or the banality of expression. A wriyter must
at one time or
another have been in a situation of loss - of ties, of
meaning - in
order
to write."
Instead of saying something quite succint about how
easy it is for peoiple who have never suffered to
idealise and romanticise suffering, I will ask the Q:
how does this process, this alleged transmutation of
emotional lead into aesthetic gold, occur?
Prediction: no comprehensible answer will be
forthcoming.
Conclusion: people have no business talking such
nonsense unless thay have some idea that it may be
true, rather than merely self-serving or romantically
appealing. What was the moon made of again?
Cheers
Scott Hamilton
--- Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Julia
Krestiva speaks very interestingly on both the
> role of women writers
> and depression when interviewed by Susan Sellers -
> 'A Question of
> Subjectivity - an Interview', Women's Review, no. 12
> (1986) pp. 19-21. It
> is reprinted in Modern Literary Theory: A Reader,
> 3rd edition, edited by
> Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh (London:
> Arnold/Hodder Headline Group) ISBN
> 0 340 64585 7. (HH - this book is/was available
> through ECU, and possibly
> is in the library.)
>
> Here's a taste:
>
> JK: ... I would say that the creative act is
> released by an experience of
> depression without which we would not call into
> question the stability of
> meaning or the banality of expression. A wriyter
> must at one time or
> another have been in a situation of loss - of ties,
> of meaning - in order
> to write.
>
> AndrewB
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Andrew Burke Copywriting
> [log in to unmask] Creative Writing
> http://www.bam.com.au/andrew/ Editing
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"Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon? And how
could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps I have
been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing be
explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life... Philosophical
problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas from life,
we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate the
application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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