There is no succha thing as the SELF.
(the Self was Freud's genial invention).
Er-mute
--- "Martin J. Walker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Actually, he didn't "saddle new ... poets with
> selves" ~ as you have read,
> he allowed the multiple personalities to emerge: he
> was releasing the
> potentiality in himself for high-grade hysteria
> coupled with dissociation on
> a very specialised verbal but not psycho-socially
> interactive level (i.e. he
> kept it to poetry writing), creating something like
> the personae of Pound's
> early poems or the different roles played by Peter
> Sellers in one film
> (didn't you mention one a few e-mails back? He used
> to become ~ and summon
> up the discourse of ~ different figures on The Goon
> Show, I've seen him do
> it). Even those driven by their multiple
> personalities (rather than driving
> them like Pessoa) are often able to enter and exit
> them like actors to a
> certain extent. It's not the selves that are
> "problematic" but the
> personalities, with their apparently coherent sets
> of attitudes, traits,
> abilities etc. I trespass on this rather treacherous
> psychological ground to
> try to clarify (I'm really not at all sure about it
> "myself") the necessary
> differences between self and persona, or mask. Think
> of what Yeats said on
> that subject.
> Martin
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