Friday, March 22, 2013

Notes March 22


  • 15th of April starts the presentations in the class
    • 5 minutes 
    • Expectations
      • no notes
      • spend time wisely
  • Iceberg
    • live in the tip of the iceberg
    • all that is past possesses the present
    • conscious and the unconscious- tip of the iceberg and the hidden parts of the iceberg
    • Anamnesis
      • process of thinking back to the beginning 
      • goes back to the notions of paradise within mythologies
  • Change Metaphor into a house 
    • Personal Unconscious
    • Freud's representation of a house
    • basement is the unconsciousness
      • shown to us by dreams
        • open us up to the forgotten memories and stories
        • filled with signs and symbols
          • Freud called this displacement
  • C.J. Jung
    • Dream
      • found a trapdoor underneath his house
      • process went on through human culture
      • Collective Unconscious
        • subterranean labyrinth
          • have access to everyone else's unconsciousness
        • Archetypes
          • primordial images
          • found most clearly in language of dreams, fairytale, and myths
  • Pandora
    • pan-everywhere
    • dora-gifts
  • Change definition of Originality
    • not never been done before
    • it means going back to the origins 
  • Displaced stories
    • Titian Flaying of Marsyas Story
    • Saytrs personifies the lustful and fertility of nature
    • Iris Murdoch displaces the story of the Flaying of Marsyas
      • standing in front of Titian Painting on the back cover of her books
      • sees this as an archetypal event
      • pain, suffering, initiation rites are themes in her stories
    • Daedalus and Icarus
      • "architecture is the only honorable pursuit"
        • study of the first and original things
      • "such was the cleverness of that strange arbour" 
      • Led Zepplin uses Icarus as part of symbolic image
      • SOL- Sun- Signs & Symbols
      • Moths fly into a flame 
  • Pale Fire
    • Nabokov
      • man reading about the Daedalian designs
  • In 1964
    • "real story" displaced

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