« “Psychoanalysis is an instrument to enable the ego to achieve a progressive conquest of the id” – That this land was already densely populated did not bother the conquistador Freud, anymore than it bothered other land-takers of the imperial age; …
recalling English graduate student seminars of the late 20th century in which "literary theory" was the rage, & within a decade or two most of these "literary theorists" were totally out of fashion & near-forgotten.
imagine spending months or years of your life reading "literary theory" instead of what is called primary sources: literature itself.
@poeticdweller it’s like ppl forgot de-man existed… if they’d actually read the theory they claim to have read and been disabused of they wouldn’t be saying this…