/lit/ - Literature

>>7149226
Interesting posts. I wrote about this in the other thread awhile ago.

Houellebecq uses his alter egoes to illustrate the European lifestyle and its collapse. His novels are almost an ethnologist describing different Europeans' choices and identities(or the lack thereof, for example that of the schizoid and the depersonalized).

> The Map and the Territory:
The representation of a subject(double entendre) is not the subject. The unrepressed (central) ego (Jed Martin) , partly conscious and attached to the ideal object(art), represses the other two objects, the exciting (libidinal) object (his Russian gf) and rejecting (antilibidinal) object(Michel Houellebecq's alter ego), together with the aspects of the ego related to them (the libidinal ego and antilibidinal ego, known as subsidiary egos). This book is about a schizoid subject. In the book, Michel's alterego describes himself as an ethnologist. There are a few quotes directly addressing this motif.

> Platform:
The sexually liberated subject subject, who yet conservatively stays in a "true" rellationship with his colleague when inadvertantly serving as the ideaman for the industry, analyzes sex tourism on a "meta-moral" highground -- so does the ambivalent reader. Note the lengthy discussion on masochism, which describes western sexuality being too logical and its imperialism of the unconditional love that $$$ can buy. With a nod to Alex Garland, he talks about the "double-bind paradox" in tourism, which means that the traveler's frenetic search for places that aren't "touristy" is always undermined by his very presence. The Deus Ex Machina ending of an Islamic bombing creates a contrived dichotomy between global sex liberation and Islamism but is not duly justified(his only argument being radicalism = bad). After the bombing, the subject experiences ego death as he mourns over his conservative love relationship as he finally accepts the double-bind of sex tourism.

> The Elementary Particles and Whatever
read my last post on warosu.