Alison
Many thanks for the Bersani reference. It has been years since I read
him too and really forget so much of it. I will get a copy from the
library and give it another read as it does seem to fit. Bersani was
important to me when I first started out on this queer path I now find
myself on.
I am not sure I follow what I am doing either, but who cares... Graham
Greene writes somewhere in an essay that some writers invent
impossibilities for themselves in their writing... it did occur to me
that I may be doing this too... sort of creating form as an
impossibility in terms of the Kantian self, which links to Freud, which
fits maybe with Bersani.
Your description of the landscape seemed to me to fit with the way
Kristeva describes the sublime as edging the abject, too. From this I
read the sublime as a marginal space. It was good to read someone else
who says a similar thing to what I was thinking also in terms of
Australian bushfires as landscape being sublime. A sort of collective
writing as Camus would perhaps say yet also different.
best
Chris Jones.
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 19:39, Alison Croggon wrote:
> Chris, fascinating stuff although I'm not sure I entirely follow it;
> and I'm delighted that you should find the quote of use. I wondered
> if the following passage had a link with Bersani's refutation of
> Freud's theory of artistic sublimation in his book The Culture of
> Redemption? As I recall, and it's years since I read it, Bersani had
> the impulse erasing the self, a mechanism Freud described as
> masochistic but which Bersani argued is anything but.
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> Best
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