Told her books are pessimistic and joyless, Toni Morrison said, “A lot of people are really annoyed because I don’t seem to be an optimist...but I can’t acquiesce.”
“Maybe those people go to books for a certain kind of escape...I mostly want to stay awake—unsoothed, unstroked.”
Oh, you think the Trojans were foolish for failing to realize they had brought the enemy inside their own otherwise impenetrable walls?
You do the same thing every night when you sleep.
Klein’s most significant and complex contribution.
“Projective Identification is a psychological process that is simultaneously a type of defense, a means of communication, a primitive form of object relationship, and a pathway for psychological change”
-T. Ogden
Pound on Homer's prosody: "The deep is so deep, like clear fathoms down. Para thina poluphloisboio thalasses: the turn of the wave and the scutter of receding pebbles. Years’ work to get that."
“… the superego is like a corrupt priest. It will whisper in your ear, Here's a good opportunity for your favorite kind of sin. No one's looking. Go ahead. Do it. Life is short, says the superego … It invites you to sin so it can whip you”
one of the most realistic films in italian cinema, “the working class goes to heaven,” is a political drama released in 1971. the film focuses on karl marx’s theory of alienation and the working conditions of factory workers.
“we are like machines!”