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henk de berg – Freud's Theory and Its Use in Literary and Cultural Studies

Back when I was dabbling in considering a humanities PhD (and coming from a very myopic/technical undergrad degree) I worked near a bookstore with a Literary Criticism section and found this book was really accessible/well-written as a crash course on humanities-style "readings" of text in general — basically it a) summarizes the main "useful" concepts from psychoanalytic theory (without getting too deep into the complexities of the full Freud oeuvre) and then b) goes through multiple famous examples of interesting literary analysis/criticism which "applies" those concepts. Other interesting meta-literary criticism books from this brief excursion in my life included: - Shklovsky - Theory of Prose - Bakhtin - The Dialogical Imagination - Propp - Morphology of the Folktale (more as an example of formalism taken to an extreme) - Barthes - S/Z (ditto) - Todorov - The Fantastic - White - Tropics of Discourse

@iconicindex

Nov 24, 2024

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Lots!

1. The crane wife - really popular a couple of years ago, a fantastic personal essay about relationships and a field-trip https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/16/the-crane-wife/  2. Why keeping a pet is fundamentally unethical - very interesting essay, I don’t necessary agree with the premise but I think it made a great attempt and has changed how I see pets and our power in relation to other beings in https://aeon.co/essays/why-keeping-a-pet-is-fundamentally-unethical 3. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge. This is really cool philosophical (logic) paper, and i am bringing it to you in two parts - read the link first, it is an explanation of the paper (for those of us who are not philosophers). then read the paper itself (search The name of the essay in google- east to find a pdf) https://jsomers.net/blog/gettiers 4. Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native - fantastic essay on what it sounds like, by Patrick Wolfe, the originator of the field of settler colonial theory. For me (stem guy, no arts background) it’s pretty confusing and dense but I keep returning to it and taking a little more every time, especially bc of the great Australian specific analysis. PDF easily available online

@siddhartha

Sep 30, 2024

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using pi.fyi book club books in your university assignments

why yes,,, north woods by daniel mason is the perfect example through which to explore eduardo kohn and henri bergson's conceptualisations of the self :))) p.s. pi.bkclb discord server is linked, come join!!! <33333

@nikau

Apr 30, 2024

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My 2024 ins/outs

my predictions and manifestations, based entirely on vibes. out: — American work ethic — learning French — situationships — low fat versions of foods — slur discourse in: — siesta — herbed yogurt — working hardest in the morning and leaving the evening for leisure — writing postcards to your long-distance friends, exclusively in cursive (if you weren’t taught to write in cursive, the time to learn will be now) — big boobs (cultural Catholicism will prevail again baby)

@nunjournal

May 3, 2024

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Having delicious and sumptuous blood

this is the summer of treating mosquito bites as mere affirmations of your desirability 🩸

@nunjournal

May 20, 2024

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Watermelon as the perfect summer meal

so sweet and refreshing..❌watermelon haters do not interact ❌

@nunjournal

Jun 20, 2024