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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/17/2012 4:09 PM, Mark Kohut
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<div>Can't find the email but if I remember, Paul said that
Terry Eagleton </div>
<div>has written that it may be THE UNCONSCIOUS that is the
creativeness</div>
<div>that unites writers. Been thinkin' on that.</div>
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Actually I kind of misrepresented the great Terry E and left out his
final point.<br>
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The unconscious was a first stab at tying things together. It works
well for psychoanalytic theory of course, also political theory
(meaning Marxist), structuralism, post structuralism, and semiotics.<br>
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However he next goes on to develop sort of a theory of everything
and comes to the conclusion that in ALL literary work, in a certain
sense, the text doesn't merely represent proper action, but also
that action is perfectly realized because the reality to which it is
faithful is no other than the one it creates itself. <br>
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The above depends on the idea of textuality--writers don't go to
work on raw reality but rather on the always already textualized.
Very French although the authors he relies on are Kenneth Burke and
Frederic Jameson.<br>
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The route to his conclusion involves a style of thinking some people
might not find persuasive. But it's all very interesting.<br>
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<div>While I read a good esssay on Kenneth Burke since he was
mentioned</div>
<div>(by Monte and Wayne Booth, I believe). Burke seemed to
believe that</div>
<div>all great writers (in recent centuries anyway) can be seen
as articulating </div>
<div>values somehow---almost by definition---different from the
prevailing, largely tacit, structural</div>
<div> values of a society. That is their necessary tension (or
else they are just PR-like journalists).</div>
<div>this summary is obviously mine, fyi.</div>
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<div>Anyway, Burke's pattern-finding leads one--me--to thoughts
of the countervailing</div>
<div>symbols in TRP, from W.A.S.T.E/Trystero to CounterForce,
etc...</div>
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<div>and how with a tight but wide understanding of 'the
prevailing ideas of a society'</div>
<div>almost any tension and insight might have to come from an
Unconsciousness outside of </div>
<div>it. And, to loop TRP back in, we know he has some
Freudian-Jungian notions about history</div>
<div>and the societies that make that history.</div>
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