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I don't get it. What does it mean to be healthy in his system?
The secret to happiness within Freud's system was to make your mother a mother again, desu.
>>8257188
Freude was interested in classifying pathological conditions. To be healthy is to have no such condition.
I guess you could call that maintaining a balance between the id, ego, and superego. That's likely how he would characterize mental health. Popper made some cutting and IMO final critiques of that notion of a spectrum, but that is the account he would seem to give based on the works he produced.
>>8257188
stupid goy. Nobody is ever healthy or fully recovered. How else do you keep the scheckels flowing?
What does /lit/ use to write?
I am looking for a nice journal notebook that i can use to write down random stuff.
>>8257184
legal pads
>>8257184
PC: OpenOffice
Physical: a notebook
True patricians use sticky notes though.
Is someone going to drink that?
what is the best Michel Houellebecq novel?
The most recent one. I think we'll find that it's very prescient.
>>8257090
id just like to say that you are a funny person, op
The ego and the Fireflies
What does academic study of literature actually do?
Does it help elevate the feeling of the sublime you get when you read something amazing, something that makes you go "damn..." when you've finished the last line?
Or is it just a bunch of theorizing, historicizing, this-book-is-actually-a-political-object stuff? (Not that this is necessarily inherently bad, of course)
Or are these complementary?
>>8257039
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnEB2F_v_cE
>>8257039
you read books until you hate reading
>>8257068
I'm wondering if it's actually worthwhile when alternatives like watching films is so much easier and arguably plenty rewarding
My mother gifted me this for my visit. My fedora friend says I shouldn't read it.
Thoughts /lit/?
>>8256984
Oh hi mom
It's non-denominational, non-erudite, New Age Baby Boomer Christian lit.
Your mother is probably "moved" by episodes of Oprah. Write her a letter saying "thanks for the fire kindling mom".
This is your mother OP. Stop being a fag and read the book.
>try to read a book
>a random poop-skinned subhuman appears blasting loud music from his car
such is life in the third world
>>8256938
I live next to an airport
>>8256938
I live next to a train
>>8256938
i am a car
can anyone recommend me something like this?
On the Road
Rayuela
>>8256867
How was it?
>>8256889
Not Op but it is good but pretty inconsistent. The first 100 pages or so is great, the rest ranges from excellent to very very tedious.
what are some books and authors that are fashionable to be really into, or currently reading? Or what literature is effay?
I think it is easy to say what is pretty lame and uncool to be reading, we can all list dozens of that
Postmodernism is what's hip.
Read Foucault. Read it in public so qt intellectual girls can see what a patrician you are, and offer you fellatio.
>>8256887
i would read foucault if it lead to a blowjob, and i think he would cheer me on from heaven
>>8256922
I'm sure he would, Anon.
Even Plath knew pottery is for faggots, top kek
>OP eats his topkeks straight out of the packet like a barbarian
everything outside poetry was made for plebs who couldnt into poetry
kysfam
What...
Pottery is the production of a useable object.
Writing is placing down ideas onto a page.
Why compare them?
How do you go about getting published, /lit/?
>>8256833
>Have boobs.
>Be pop-feminist
>Make a shitty, hipstery youtube channel, twitter, and tumblr.
>Amass followers with slef-help videos and sex-positive feminist nudes or semi-nudes.
>Publish with either little, hipster, pop-feminist, millennial press or self-publish.
>Tell all followers to buy book.
Write a book in a cryptic cypher with crazy illustrations, then bury it. In time, somebody will find it, and reproductions of it will soon occur.
>>8257295
But then I'll be dead, anon.
Why is Harold Bloom heralded as some bastion of /pol/ stormfaggotry?
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html\
He is politically liberal and included a wide range of ethnic and gender diversity in his western canon, and as such is clearly not the hero most of of you ignorant racists make him out to be.
>>8256748
The word 'racist' is a slur coined by Jewish communist Leon Trotsky. Anti-Racism is a code word for the cultural, biological and psychological subversion and dismantled of White European Civilisation. You can guess what side (((Bloom))) was on.
>sonic.net
>sonic
Except he isn't, you fucking retard
What does /lit/ read beyond books (e.g. news sites, columns, blogs)?
>>8256697
Ross Douthat's column in NYT.
>>8256697
every once in a while i like to read comics. carl barks, hergè, enki bilal, etc. i'm even getting a bit into manga again: just read all of "lone wolf and cub" and "path of the assasin", next is "samurai executioner".
>>8256697
Comics and interviews, mostly.
What's the most depressing, soul-sucking book you've ever read and why? Pic related.
>>8256690
The only thing depressing about the Book of Disquiet is that I paid $10 for it
Post-war Jap lit as a whole is pretty fucking depressing their culture considered. The end of The Sound of Waves struck me pretty hard especially, but the ones listed here are certainly good too
>>8256690
Skylark is pretty sad
The End of the Affair and The Power and the Glory
A Little Life is basically designed to make you feel awful
Jude the Obscure
Anything by Hubert Selby
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Execution by Hunger by Miron Dolot
The Decay of the Angel
Underground by Murakami
and in first place, The Remains of the Day.
>>8256724
How did you like The Sound of Waves? Its the only Mishima book at my local bookstore and it doesn't seem as popular as his other works
>Get book at used bookstore
>Turns out it's a first edition
>Don't want to read and possibly damage it now
get another copy lol
maybe even a really cheapo used copy, and stick the first edition on ur bookshelf
>>8256681
Just take pictures of all the pages
https://www.amazon.com/Plustek-OpticBook-3800-Book-Scanner/dp/B005AHBGZ6
>>8256736
Don't shill your products here
Has anyone made a truly profound and meaningful contribution to the study of ethics and morality post-Nietzsche? Not even memeing or being condescending.
>>8256634
it depends.
>>8256634
Derek parfit
>>8256634
Unironically, no.
All the post-modernism/structuralism that followed since, has been nothing more than an exercise in naval-gazing that no one outside of a university's Humanities department will ever notice - minus the occasional piece of social engineering.
Philosophy needs another Copernican revolution, but more than that - because we now live in a largely post-philosophical society. I mean 'philosophical' in a meaningful sense - modern morality/philosophy is an exercise in metaphorical...
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