Give me all your models, please.

[tinkerjack]

Mourning and Melancholia

"This picture of a delusion of inferiority is completed, ... by -what is psychologically very remarkable-by an overcoming of the instinct which compels every living thing to cling to life"

"Freud says the need to be an artist comes from early childhood and a sense of loss that enables the artist to see things differently. This vision rules his life. Not entirely neurotic, not entirely normal, the artist is endowed with a creative personality and a ruthless passion that allows him to separate his own grief feelings of melancholia from his grief feelings of mourning (death/rebirth or creativity cycle…. Beset by melancholia, his ruthless passion for his inner life during his session (days, weeks, months) of producing an art work separates him from his neurosis. Grief is interpreted as mourning, not depression. Mourning, a positive process in life, leads the sufferer to change and growth, to a kind of rebirth, to a condition previously unknown."

Link to the Joyce paper

Freud speaks to me, he is the anthropogist of my soul.

I don't know if Kate
Moses considers herself a feminist? I suppose it is like calling
someone an existentialist what does that mean, he or she bares their soul, does
the existential striptease. . I wonder what Kate
Moses was thinking of when she wrote this line about Sylvia Plath's
last day of life. "To the very end Sylvia Plath hid behind her masks, pulling
her veils around her even into death. One can only wonder who, that last winter
Monday, she thought she was then."

Poetry as a blood sport? I try to avoid Freudian jargon but I can't
find a better metaphor to help Moses's lack of imagination, I can see
Ester's disease. I have read the bell jar more times then is normal,
hoping some of her genius and writing style might be contagious. Now I can
feel her disease. The only thing that has saved me is that I am not
a woman, thank god. Mourning and Melancholia, If only Freud had been
right.

the artist can escape.

"This picture of a delusion of inferiority is completed, ... by
-what is psychologically very remarkable-by an overcoming of the instinct which
compels every living thing to cling to life"
"Anne Stevenson and Sylvia Plath and I came of age
in the period when the need to keep up the pretense was strong: no one was
prepared to ...face the post-Hiroshima and post-Auschwitz world. At the end of
her life , Plath looked, with unnerving steadiness, at the Gorgons;...She was
able-she had been elected-to confront what most of the rest us fearfully shrank
from.

"For goodness sake, stop being so frightened of everything, Mother!"
she wrote to Aurelia Plath in October ,1962. "Almost every other word in
your letter is 'frightened. In the same letter she said:...It's too bad my poems
frighten you."
Silent Woman Janet Malcolm


“Understanding Plath's biology underscores her very human, as opposed
to iconic, instinct toward self-preservation. If one accepts the
possibility that Plath's true demon was not something of her own making
but a force, or forces, she was quite powerless against, her attempts to
juggle the details of her daily life, to care for herself and her small
children alone and furthermore to programmatically write "dawn
poems in blood" to save her sanity seem nothing less than
courageous”

"million
filaments"
One can see that matters of the intellect and beauty, or in other words,
science and art, blend together because they have always been one thing;
so that artistic activity definitely belongs among the sciences, as a
kind of fifth faculty if you like – is no less a humanistic
profession,

insofar as, to repeat myself, its main theme or concern is human beings.

Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain

WHY


Tragic chemistry

Silent woman’s- p. m. s.

Can kill a poet............

I can only hope there is method to my madness, my self exposure, my existential strip tease.

[MrGuilty]

Hey rat face how could i miss you, the hotest babe here. I ripped up my Minnie Mouse cheese cake poster a long time. Now I got yours up in its place.


I like manic's take on it, consederation for others, most of us make our own rules. same for morals. This is paraphrase from memory. Her avatar hursts my eyes. At heart I am still a solipsizer of women. I put her face with your sense of humor, anniefay's hair, you know like dr Frank N Furter building the perfect woman.

So anyway I saw a bunch of mousey1 one posts earlier today and came back after a pleasant afternoon in country side, and this was the only mousey1 post left, so I figured I better jump on it.

Ratbag good string. wandering, a lost art.

[stilltrucking]

Hester here is my model of a hot babe. Does she look like a crone to you? If I had a girlfriend under the age of 50 I would feel like I was robbing the cradle



Rat bag I think we have all hijacked your post.

[hester_prynne]

My model is simple.

Everybody eats.
Nobody hits.