“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”
quoth the madman
“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”
— Margaret Atwood
ponderous
“With everything that has happened to you, you
can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a
gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep
you from growing. You get to choose.”
— Wayne Dyer
literacki
“The path I choose through the maze makes me
what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many
ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take
will help me understand what I am becoming.”
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
literacki
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I
wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much
love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”
ponder
"Love is not a contract between two narcissists. It’s more than that. It’s a construction that compels the participants to go beyond narcissism. In order that love lasts one has to reinvent oneself."
ponder
Desire and the drive are two distinct orders that must not be confounded.
There is a lesson to be learned here concerning the end of analysis, namely that any problematic of desire always leads to identification, suggesting that desire satisfies itself with identification. Identification is the mode by which desire is satisfied.
Even the hysteric’s unsatisfied desire –what is it satisfied with if not by an identification with the other’s dissatisfaction? Thus, in a certain sense, desire is essentially satisfied through identification.
That is why Lacan says early in his work that desire is desire for recognition…. What Freud termed the drive is something altogether different; it must be distinguished from the sliding functions of desire, because the drive couldn’t care less about the desire for recognition.
No identification can satisfy the drive.
There is a lesson to be learned here concerning the end of analysis, namely that any problematic of desire always leads to identification, suggesting that desire satisfies itself with identification. Identification is the mode by which desire is satisfied.
Even the hysteric’s unsatisfied desire –what is it satisfied with if not by an identification with the other’s dissatisfaction? Thus, in a certain sense, desire is essentially satisfied through identification.
That is why Lacan says early in his work that desire is desire for recognition…. What Freud termed the drive is something altogether different; it must be distinguished from the sliding functions of desire, because the drive couldn’t care less about the desire for recognition.
No identification can satisfy the drive.
ars poetica
Your eyes reflect the sunset and the dawn;
you scatter perfumes like a windy night;
your kisses are a drug,
— Charles Baudelaire, from “Hymn to Beauty,” Les Fleurs Du Mal
literacki
Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
— Michael Cunningham, The Hours
ars poetica
Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
ponder
— Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
ponder
رنگ و بُو سے کہیں پناہ نہیں…
خواہشیں بھی کہاں اماں دیں گی
There’s no refuge from scent and beauty
Desires will not let one rest…
— پروین شاکر
pondering
pondering
And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.
— Jack Kerouac,
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