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Pg 44-45:

"The production and reception of art neither brush aside not replace nor merely conceal that which is unbearable because it is monstrous. Art instead exposes what is monstrous-..- and makes possible its experience. Only through sublimation, Goethe teaches, does the monstrous scale of what is to be sublimated become apparent."

"Authentic sublimation relates to a terrifying beautterly associated with the death drive, not a Sublime moral beauty that supports traditional ethics "

Loving it

Very thick book >.<

I picked up this book and discovered many creatives work 3-4 intense hours and avoid social life. I have less to feel guilty about now.

I tend to agree more with Jung that dreams reveal discomfort with status quo, destructive behavorial and emotional patterns. I am very happy with this reading. :)

Quite political

Some points i like, some points left me cold: I wish to believe that the memory of dream and delusion material tells me more about my other wishes (which might be as shameful as my female Oedipus complex, but it is not ALL & ONLY about my Oedipus complex)

Freud described events when people give up, or regressed into some guilt complex on the attainment of the long-desired wish. Reflecting in the tendency in myself, the end of one dream should be the beginning of another, not the end of everything. We only regress because of the limit of imagination to stop at wish fulfilment. Ask, what would I do when I attain the dream.

"How the writer accomplishes this is his innermost secret: the essential ars poetica lies in the technique by which our feeling of repulsion is overcome, and this this certainly to do with those barriers errected between every individual being and others.""Perhaps much that brings about this result consists in the writer's putting us into a position in which we can enjoy our own day-dreams without reproach or shame."

"Perhaps much that brings about this result consists in the writer's putting us into a position in which we can enjoy our own day-dreams without reproach or shame."

I was once mixed up about the two books with "Room" in their titles - A Room of One's Own and A Room with a View. Decided to read both books.