V-2nd C4 The Search for Bridey Murphy

[David Morris]

Well (and clearly) said.

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:57 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Freud is quite a great reader of art; his reading of The David and the
> Moses of Michalangelo is profound and original and, as far as I know,
> the only correct reading of the moment of crisis the artist captures
> in stone. Reading Frazer on the veneration of trees, a text that
> continues to influence the works of P (VL) long after V., where young
> P only lifts and twists from the masters like Freud, I am reminded how
> much we've learned since those big heads of the modern epoch took on
> god and the death of god, uncertainty , relativity, incomplete,
> indeterminate ...the list goes on...evolution, entropy, then war war
> war by machine and markets and intangable assets and frontiers deeper
> in the unconscious than were even known to exist before they were men
> and women. The idea that humans are not rational or that the actions,
> thoughts, passions of humans are not rational or not driven by a
> divine acrhitectual design or in the image of some humanistic model
> that distinguished humans from fish, and that human volition or choice
> or free will and so on...that man amde god and the gods in his own
> image because of irrational fears of death and nature ....this Freud
> does not have exclusive claim to, but he articulated these and other
> ideas within a system of thought that changed the way we look at
> ourselves, the world, and our creations.