/lit/ - Literature

I don't know, sci-fi is uninteresting to me. I only like this book and maybe a few Dick's and Lem's books.

Houellebecq, especially Whatever and Atomised

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So it's just 4 million Jews? What's the fuss about then?

Uhm, sweaty, if your ass wanna act incel, at least have the decency to frame your thread as relating to literature in some manner.

>Obsessed by the neurotic aspects of Sor Juana's personality, Pfandl
ignored nearly all the social and historical circumstances surrounding
her. Through several hundred pages he turns again and again to Sor
Juana's psychic and physiological conflicts, from infantile penis envy to
the disorders of menopause, but he overlooks one circumstance that was
no less determining than psychology and physiology: the masculine
character of the culture and world in which Sor Juana lived. How, in a
civilization of men and for men, could a woman gain access to learning
without becoming masculinized ? Pfandl failed to see that in individual
destinies the influence of social and cultural conditions is no less powerful
than psychic and physiological predisposition. Pfandl's book is inadequate
on another level: he did not write a concrete study of Juana
Ines; he limited himself to applying the etiology of others to her case.
His method was deductive and based almost entirely on analogy. If a
biographer is hampered by an absence of documents, he must content
himself with hypotheses. That is what Pfandl did not do: he produced a
handful of affirmations and set them forth with an air of triumph.
Strange as it may seem, he was not really interested either in the flesh
and-blood Juana Ines or in the historical and social figure. He simply
applied the schemata of psychoanalysis-of the Jungian more than the
Freudian variety-to the nun's biography and to her works. Occasionally
the theoretical model coincides with the facts and illuminates them;
more frequently it obscures them.

>At certain moments Piandl's method verges on the inadvertently
comic. In the Response Sor Juana speaks of the kitchen and of cooking
eggs; the German professor gravely reminds us of the symbolic function
of the egg in the Rig Veda and the Sioux epic, in Orphic philosophy and
among the Gnostics. ("In the universe the sky occupies the place of the
white in the original egg.") One of the topoi of the poetry of her time,
the owl Nyctimene, thief of oil (mentioned in First Dream), is transformed
into evidence of the nun's incestuous feelings. Bent on deciphering
the latent content of Sor Juana's writings, Piandl did not notice that
almost always the manifest meaning is the richer and more vivid. Thus
he converted extraordinary texts like The Divine Narcissus and First
Dream into tedious repertories of the commonplaces of psychoanalysis.
It may be that the speculations of Descartes or the tragedies of Racine
are masks for the pleasure or nirvana principle. No matter; these works
exalt and beguile us in themselves.

Damn, so this is the power of jungianism applied to literary analysis...

>that burger who goes to mass after he reads tbk

Literally no one is in awe of his genius, no one whatsoever. It's a good thing that you, evidently in awe of his genius, made this thread for the poor souls who have not had the opportunity to be in awe of his genius. But all this has changed. Based OPs like you, who for examplepresent us with the opportunity to be in awe of his genius, this Dante fella, make /lit/ the great place it is. Based.