Norman O. Brown

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 8 21:09:54 CDT 2002


Shit is N.O.Brown's wonderful medium allah Freud's magic fecality.  Shit is 
money according to them both according to Brown. The Word is also a magic 
medium: the Word via Metaphor is the medium of transformation and 
Salvation... Imagination.

David Morris

>God is hidden under his own opposite, deus absconditus
>sub contrario; as incarnate, as God in the shape of a
>Man; most hidden when most there. Symbolism is this
>Paradoxical coming-together of the Sacred and Profane;
>it is a conincidentia oppositorum, the true cross.
>"Every hierophany shows, makes manifest, the
>coexistance of contradictory essences; sacred and
>profane, spirit and matter, eternal and non-eternal."
>There is this sacrament, this incarnation, wherever
>there is meaning; in every sentence "the transfer and
>communicatio idiomatum of the mental and the material,
>of extension and sense, of body and thought"; langauge
>is a sacrament, a mysterious union of opposites in
>concrete form.
>
>From: cathy ramirez <cathyramirez69 at yahoo.com>\
>
>The revolution is from Below, the lower classes, the Underworld, the 
>damned, the disruptable, the despised and rejected. Freud's revolutionary 
>motto in The Interpretation of Dreams: Flectere si nequeo Superso Acherunta 
>movebo, If I can not bend the higher powers, I will stir up the lower 
>depths. Freud's discovery: the universal Underworld.
>
>Freud ID.540

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