grgr (34): "sub-sub-textualism" (s~z) //:: a 3 layer model of texts

Lorentzen / Nicklaus lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Mon Aug 21 09:21:55 CDT 2000



                                         "überzeugen ist unfruchtbar."

                                (walter benjamin: einbahnstraße [1928], p. 12)

                                           convincing is unfruitful.            
                       

 ... while thinking about this final section i somehow came to ask myself what 
model of texts i'm implicitly following while kicking this p-list shit ... 
wilhelm reich spoke of the three layers of the human being's bio-physical 
structure: on the surface there's the social mask (- comparable to jung's 
"persona"), in the middle layer one can find the "secondary drives" of the 
freudian "unconscious" like cruelty, envy or greed (- comparable to jung's 
"shadow"), and deep down we are  p u l s a t i n g  in our living core: 
streamings & beings ... [- structurally this, of course, can be put into 
constellation with the gnostic anthropology: hyle, psyche & --- pneuma] ... what 
interests me here, is to read this 3 layer structure as a model of texts ... the 
first layer (- social mask) would be something like the plot in its naked words. 
in the middle layer (- secondary drives) we search for the absent 
possibilities that shape the actual meaning of the written words. & - eventually 
- there's the deep layer, where the text is  p u l s a t i n g  in its living 
core: streamings & beings ... it's this oceanic deepness (- in gr & otherwhere) 
i want to share with people ... you may call this reading technique "energized 
amplification" ... the most exiting p-mails i received were somehow like magic 
surfboards that made me, while riding them, realize how  h u g e  this ocean 
actually is ... 

 kfl
 
     




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