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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