> Genres must not be mixed...
orrr... and was so looking forward to adding a dash of Gothic to two
teaspoons of Science Fiction with a pinch of Realist Prescription.
> affect - those rebellious outbursts of fury, lust and weeping that
> we take to be so transfigurative - is to some extent the deployment
> of a force already marshalled and co-opted by the big Other. This
> is one of Judy B.'s better points
Affect and the WTC collapse seems to be being done all over the place
(in terms of academic papers, that is.) I did so admire the Bush
Administration taking affect creation, the Towers collapse, folding
it into symptoms and despotic signifiers. The Administration would be
given a high distinction, if I were marking it. Maybe one should drag
out a Tomkins affect scale for this? (Not a great fan of Judy's,
otherwise. More Leo's side on the cross dressing issue.)
> I wonder why one so seldom hears poets and intellectuals say that
> they are on the side of the ruling class nowadays?
Being third and fourth generation Ruling Class (otherwise known as
living in genteel poverty) I claim by Right Oedipal petulance and be
on the other side. (Petulance seems to run in the filial line, one
ancestor dragged the Governor of the Colony of New South Wales from
beneath his bed and held a gun to him in a military coupe.)
Yes Erminia, I did think this thread was about imagination, too.
Oedipal filiation is imagination, too. Am reading Frank Moorehouse
_Dark Palace_ where your transexual thought was spot on.
best
Chris Jones.
(PS. . . always uncertain about citing sources on lists, but the
critique of psychoanalysis as imperial interpretation was stolen from
a paper by a trained psychoanalyst with a dash of Lacan, as I
understand, anyway.)
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