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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

BECAUSE OF THIS WE SHOULD ALL GO TO POLAND.

Like Alex mentioned, we both went to Poland this summer. We lived in Krakow, a city that absolutly IS this class–for so many reasons.
I did some wikipedia research and guess what. “Krakow” derived from Krakus, the legendary founder of the city who built his castle on Wawel (pronounched “Vavel̶ Hill ON TOP OF A […]

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Monday, October 29th, 2007

James Joyce and the Cultural Unconscious

I’m thrilled to see Alex’s post about James Joyce, as I believe he figured more of this stuff out than perhaps any other writer in history.
For my last book, Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England, I chose the following passage from Joyce’s novel, Finnegans Wake, for my epigraph:
A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip […]

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Monday, October 29th, 2007

German Writing System and James Joyce

This post is about two completely separate topics, but I was thinking about both.
The first thing deals with what Dr. Brooks was saying the other day about the new writing system the Germans introduced prior to the Holocaust.  Erin and I both studied abroad in Poland this past summer with Dr. Krammer, a professor in the history […]

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Sunday, October 28th, 2007

For extra credit for French class we watched a movie called “Monsieur Ibrahim” about a Jewish boy in Paris whose father deserts him and commits suicide by lying under a train.  The father had always wanted him to be like his older brother, who you later find out never existed; ‘he’ was a means of […]

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Sunday, October 28th, 2007

The Sopranos and the cultural unconscious

Brandon sent me the following e-mail:
I was just reading an interview with David Chase (the creator of the
Sopranos) and he articulated something you’ve been talking about in class about directors tapping into the collective unconscious. Specifically it’s about the final scene of the Sopranos finale, which I’m sure you’ve heard about, and if he actively […]

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Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Fetishization of Chalkboard

Hello!
 This Youtube video obsesses over words, divides segments of its posts into chapters, and makes chalkdust seem kind of like sperm; funny too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMvMzQ4Vu-8
 -Sara B.

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Friday, October 26th, 2007

are we passing the popcorn?

…in a childrens book part of the story is about castration and female circumcision…??
http://snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp 
 Read the examples and the Origin; anxious to hear what you guys think,
-Nellie

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Thursday, October 25th, 2007

How Unconscious History Works

I’m posting a NYT article on dreams below for two reasons:
1. Lacan says the Real is most clearly experienced in dreams, so it’s no suprise that so much of dreaming takes the form of nightmares. Notice that before children start school, the realm of the symbolic, they don’t have nightmares, presumably because they remain largely […]

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Thursday, October 25th, 2007

A mother’s seemingly successful search to “cure” her autistic son…

This is the most e-mailed article on psychologytoday.com right now….
The Strange Case of Homeopathy
In 1994, NASA computer scientist Amy Lansky of Portola Valley, California, began wondering about her two-year-old son. Max knew the alphabet and could beat adults at memory games, but he barely spoke and, despite normal hearing, didn’t seem to understand language. At […]

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Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Sentimentality: A Fetish for Firsts

Oh, and the same day I saw the Homeopathy article…this was right next to it.
Why do original artworks sell for big bucks at auction while reproductions languish at yard sales? How is that pair of earrings your grandmother gave you different from every identical pair? Who taught you that autographs are worth anything? It’s not […]

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