/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22885779]

Has a book you read ever made you less sane/more mentally ill? Which one? I remember having a depressive episode after reading Ted K's manifesto.

[Anonymous No.22885792]

A depressive episode is not mental illness, just a part of life and if a book actually made you schizo you weren't exactly sane in the first place.

[Anonymous No.22885807]

>>22885779
The holy bible

[Anonymous No.22885820]

>>22885779
>I remember having a depressive episode after reading Ted K's manifesto.
Why lmao

[Anonymous No.22885831]

>>22885820
Just made me feel hopeless for the near future. He correctly points out some problems, but I believe there is no solution even though he believed there was. That said, I wasn't at my best around that time so that's probably why it impacted me so much.
I've learned to cope and not care since then, though.

[Anonymous No.22885922]

Jung's worm

[Anonymous No.22885926]

>>22885779
>a depressive episode
lmao

[Anonymous No.22885928]

>>22885779
Atomised and Stoner fucked me up pretty bad, I still haven’t recovered.

Stoner made me feel sad, Atomised really FUCKED me, my whole being.

[Anonymous No.22885950]

>>22885779
Not a book, but once watched Videodrome drive an entire chatroom deranged. It was temporary, of course, but it was intense.

[Anonymous No.22885976]

>>22885779
Sartre's Nausea sent me into a depressive spiral which I have yet to recover from

[Anonymous No.22885987]

Everything Houellebecq has written makes me feel like this

[Anonymous No.22886028]

>>22885779
Unironically Metamorphosis by Kafka. Been thinking about this book for a long time and it made me too aware of transactionality in human relations

[Anonymous No.22886067]

>>22885779
Begone, lain-tranny.

[Anonymous No.22886073]

>>22885779
No, but a book made me fall off the wagon after 80+ days sober. that book: The Elementary Particles

[Anonymous No.22886074]

>>22885779

[Anonymous No.22886083]

>>22885779
same

[Anonymous No.22886099]

>>22886067
Don't be mean to the lainon! /lit/ is a trans-inclusive space!!!

[Anonymous No.22886110]

>>22885779
Thomas Ligotti’s Conspiracy against the Human Race

[Anonymous No.22887041]

>>22885779
>>22885831
>getting sad over the logos of uncle Ted
>not becoming filled with joy and giddy
lmao

[Anonymous No.22887042]

>>22886074
>weak bitch obsessing over mental Rubik's Cubes
gay

[Anonymous No.22887055]

I increasingly believe that Gravity‘s Rainbow was made with some degree of CIA/MKUltra involvement.

[Anonymous No.22887084]

>>22887055
why?

[Anonymous No.22887242]

>>22885807
not literature

[Anonymous No.22887245]

>>22885831
You sound like every other 14 year old>>22887055

[Anonymous No.22887246]

>>22887055
Why do you think Tom went on the lam?

[Anonymous No.22887248]

>>22885779
Thus spoke Zarathustra, The Joyful Science and Twilight of the Idols granted me a new appreciation of life.

[Anonymous No.22887393]

>>22885779
Gulliver's Travels made me a full-blown misanthrope. Was pretty depressed for a bit then Corona came and made me pissed off and served to justify my misanthropy.

[Anonymous No.22887397]

>>22887245
stupid comment

[Anonymous No.22887410]

>>22885779
Goddammit...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylyg12q3lyI

[Anonymous No.22887418]

The perennialists drive you insane in a good way. Frithjof Schuon's The Eye of the Heart is a great start, though perhaps Guenon's The Multiple States of the Being is the most important perennialist work.

[Anonymous No.22887433]

>>22887418
Redpill me on Schuon. It always seems strange to me that people continue to love him despite the stories about him and the fact that Guenon has higher prestige these days as a new generation discovers Traditionalism mostly via the internet.

[Anonymous No.22887438]

>>22885779
Yeah, El Lobo de Arriba y el Lobo de Abajo by José María Arguedas. I don't know if there's an English, or any, translation. The author killed himself and as a part of the novel there are excerpts of his diary in which he describes in detail his illness. It has lowered my defenses and corrupted my dreams. I know the book doesn't end because he fucking gunned himself down, yet I don't know where's the novel gonna end.
Good novel, tho

[Anonymous No.22887481]

>>22887418
Schuon is literally a cuck, I'm not even joking

[Anonymous No.22887660]

>>22887418
The only one that matters.

[Anonymous No.22887665]

Any books that will make me kill myself?

[Anonymous No.22887668]

>>22885831
Teds a retard get over it

[Anonymous No.22887678]

>>22887665
McCarthy's "The Crossing"

[Anonymous No.22887692]

>>22887665
Watch mishimas patriotism on YouTube and then follow his example.

[Anonymous No.22887706]

Edgy channers will say it's not related to mental illness, but Wuthering Heights made me a seething misogynist and I haven't been able to look at a woman the same since

[Anonymous No.22887707]

>>22885779
Triumph of the Therapeutic made me feel justified going off meds

[Anonymous No.22887832]

>>22887706
If you think misogyny is related to mental illness, you'll have a hard time conceiving of any opinion or viewpoint that is not a pathology to you. Was every Greek mentally ill?

[Anonymous No.22887906]

yes more or less all of them as they should

[Anonymous No.22887912]

>>22886067

[Anonymous No.22887917]

>>22885831
how old are you?

[Anonymous No.22887919]

>>22887832
No, but being brought to hate a broad category of people by a romantic fiction is not wellness. You might hate jews and be fine, but if you hate them because of Shylock you're mentally ill.

[Anonymous No.22888131]

fanged noumena

[Anonymous No.22888186]

>>22887919
Yeah, ok, that's fine. I agree.

[Anonymous No.22888220]

[Anonymous No.22888225]

>>22887397
stupid games, stupid prizes

[Anonymous No.22888310]

>>22885779
Yes: after reading Rameau's Nephew i had the intense and compulsory urge to engage in unusual, weird, somewhat witty, somewhat pseudo-intellectual, and frenetic public behaviour. To be frank this is something i have anyways, but the book increased it.

[Anonymous No.22888315]

>>22887917
23 now. I was like 16 when I read the book.

[Anonymous No.22888316]

>>22885779
Definitely conspiracy against human race. Couldn't finish is beyond 3 chapters.

[Anonymous No.22888320]

>>22885779
Not really. But reading shit like Mamleev and Sorokin definitely reminded me that some people are filthy schizos.

[Anonymous No.22888321]

Not a book, but I binged ulysse malcouer/metaspinoza and adjacent’s writings and two weeks later had a psychotic episode. Could be unrelated, but I did scrawl some lines of ‘neoleviathan’ all over my room so who knows.

[Anonymous No.22888345]

test

[Anonymous No.22888364]

Weak mind

[Anonymous No.22888558]

>>22885779
The Bell Jar, twice.
Truly an evil book, in the strictest sense of the word. Since I threw it away my life has been improving greatly.

[Anonymous No.22888573]

>>22887433
>>22887481
I don't know about Schuon the man (there are rumors of sexual abuse, but I also hear they were never substantiated. Never heard of him being a cuck, wasn't that Coomaraswamy getting cucked by Aleister Crowley of all people?), but as a writer, he's the best of the perennialists, he just has great poetical flourishes, and reading him you really feel like you're seeing a blind man touching the elephant all over the place. Peak perennialism.

[Anonymous No.22889219]

>>22888558
why?

[Anonymous No.22889403]

>>22885779
When I read Ted's manifesto I felt the very same way when I read the communist manifesto.

The problems presented by the author are real, but the proposed solution is at best laughable.

[Anonymous No.22889817]

Self and Unself by Darren Allen made me feel sane for the first time in my life.

Ted K manifesto sort of did this too. I used to read it before bed if I had a bad day.

[Anonymous No.22890902]

>>22885807
Why call it that if you're just going to use lowercase anyway?

[Anonymous No.22891044]

>>22885779
Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenkō abated my loneliness and taught me to slow down and look at the aesthetic beauty inherent in things.
The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald made me feel incredibly desolate and aware of being surrounded by all-encompassing, ever-present Destruction.
Not a traditionalist, but Guénon's Reign of Quantity opened my eyes to a more acute awareness of the vertical dimension of human life.
Dante, and part of Cristoforo Landino's commentary on the Commedia, made me see poetry transcends all other art and how poets can bring down divinely inspired wisdom.
Also, platonic philosophy and religious scriptures, obviously, but I feel that's almost cheating.

[Anonymous No.22891051]

>>22890902
>can't spot a phone poster
Pray for a few more IQ points.

[Anonymous No.22891664]

>>22885779
Kind of related, I once did a hatecrime at the library. I checked out Conrad's Nigger of the Narcissus and the girl at the desk looked like she was going to cry kek

[Anonymous No.22893125]

>>22887912
4channel is dead oldfag

[Anonymous No.22893358]

>>22887665
Depends why you’re currently feeling despair.

[Anonymous No.22893437]

The Anti-Oedipus gave me a psychotic breakdown

[thecrowguy No.22893454]

[Anonymous No.22893953]

>>22893125
Seriously, when did that happen? I went to a red board and the url stayed the same (used to be a redirect).

I guess the advertisers didn't buy it?

[Anonymous No.22893956]

How about books that made you more sane and mentally well?
I'll start, Phaedo

[Anonymous No.22894345]

>>22893956
No fuck you. I want to kill myself not get better

[Anonymous No.22894363]

>>22885950
What chatroom?

[Anonymous No.22894450]

>>22894363
I don't know. I wish I did. Those were good times. It was one of those online watch party sites, but it was years ago.

[Anonymous No.22895528]

>>22885779
What the hell

[Anonymous No.22895583]

>>22887242
Seething lol. It’s the fucking internet bro. If you don’t like it just ignore it.

[Anonymous No.22895636]

>>22885779
Lain is my daughteru.

[Anonymous No.22895662]

I read my best friend's brother's manuscript and it was so incomprehensible it gave me a slight panic attack. What if my work of fiction was equally incomprehensible?

[Anonymous No.22895756]

>>22895583
Prove me wrong

[Anonymous No.22895954]

>>22888320
Where can I read them?

[Anonymous No.22896014]

>>22895756
Nta, but there's no need to prove anything to an unread pseud. Read any good work on the history of the Western canon like Auerbach's Mimesis.

[Anonymous No.22896023]

>>22893953
like two weeks ago
maybe it's to piss off bored officecucks

[Anonymous No.22896104]

>>22885779
I read the web novel "Mother of Learning" during high school in the span of a week, the book centers around a ground hog day time loop where the characters repeat the same month over and over. I would catch myself making decisions during my everyday life that were way more reckless and risky than usually because I automatically assumed that the month would restart so it did not matter what I did there would not be consequences. I would go on these trains of thought for longer than is comfortable to admit and would snap out of it only after seriously considering or partially completing a plan. Stayed like that for about a week.

[Anonymous No.22896271]

>>22895954
The fuck do I know? Search Mamleev's "The sublimes" or Sorokin's "The norm" and "Their four hearts".

[Anonymous No.22897328]

>>22896014
Still not literature

[Anonymous No.22897394]

>>22897328
Not an argument

[Anonymous No.22898026]

Finnegans Wake had me hallucinating about specific lines. Fucked up my brain.

[Anonymous No.22898087]

>>22885779
“Sadly, Porn” by Edward Teach, AKA the Last Psychiatrist

I had a full blown psychotic episode halfway through and tried to have myself arrested (no, I haven’t committed a crime). Ultimately institutionalized myself for a week or two to calm down.

Went back and finished the book afterwards and honestly it’s kinda mid. Not sure why I took it so seriously lol

[Anonymous No.22898094]

Yeah where I was reading blood meridian for the first time, I seriously started to think my home was tapped and that I was being gangstalked. This was also during a stint where I was getting exposed to shit like Schopenhauer and Ligotti for the first time, it might have been too much too quick. Touching grass at a new job helped.

[Anonymous No.22898149]

>>22885779
>Has a book you read ever made you less sane/more mentally ill?
>mentally ill
Still falling for the mental-illness meme huh?

[Anonymous No.22898208]

>>22887242
>literature
the bible is the best literature out there

[Anonymous No.22898216]

>>22885779
Confessions of a Mask. I was already an autistic gay sadist with right wing larper tendencies and he just affirmed all my delusions.

[Anonymous No.22898695]

>>22898208
Not literature

[Anonymous No.22898918]

>>22886110
This

[Anonymous No.22898997]

>>22885926
>mfw i skip the depressive episode to watch the one where I get laid

[Anonymous No.22899000]

>>22891044
apparently none of those books helped your reading comprehension because you didn't read the OP

[Anonymous No.22900069]

>>22899000
yeah well you're ugly

[Anonymous No.22900105]

My interest in philosophy eventually led me to Deleuze. The first time I read him, I genuinely thought I was going crazy.

[Anonymous No.22900146]

>>22900105
lol the first time I tried to read anti oedipus was during first episode psychosis and I kept reading the first 100 pages over and over thinking id never touched it before. I’ve finished it since but it was great I became very familiar with those first sections lmao

[Anonymous No.22901028]

>>22885779
If anything, books always make me more sane and at peace, give me hope and solace, as well as comfort, even when they attempt to provoke the exact opposite in me.