M&D - Chapter 17 - Mason's fondest wish

[David Ewers]

	The Ear's listening to but not granting wishes...  outsourcing God stuff again?


As Mr. Kohut already said, which I'd have known if I was paying attention:

Johnny asks:
Is the ear metonymic for a world which listens but doesn't hear?
Probably one meaning but
I hark back, with the relic nature, like saints' relics and the words
about an absent god to see it
also as a metonym for the Divine, always being invoked but never
(able) to answer....

"God" as Erotic Ground of Being? "Priapic", etc. venerated as such
anyway. That is, His listening
displaces our primal energies?


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