Re: beating as one heart
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:20:33 +1000
Scottie wrote:
> And on the question of narcissism I have to say,
> Camille, what a great pleasure it is to feel oneself
> surfing along on the same Bondi wave as yourself.
> Not all that common an experience but none the less
> exhilarating for that.
Well hey - I don't deliberately disagree with people. I enjoy a good long
argument the same way most people enjoy a long good pint - it gets better
the closer you get to the bottom of it all (: I can honestly say that
sometimes I even *prefer* to disagree with people, it gives more food for
thought. But I'm delighted to ride on the same rail as you for once too (:
> (I'm intrigued, incidentally, that you attribute your
> admirable Freudian exposition to Nabakov. The last
> time I heard you quote him he seemed rather more
> dismissive of the old man's insights.)
To quote the guy I don't necessarily have to agree with him on everything
he's ever said. So far as I can see, the psychoanalysts are all in pursuit
of one thing - the understanding of the human psyche - and I agree with
some methods and their results more than others. I'm like a spiritual
trawler, I figure - throw out the insights you don't need, hang on to the
ones you do. This was one of Freud's that I decided to stuff and mount on
the wall and the point I'm making is that more Jungs than Freuds have made
it up there so far. There's no denying Freud made some fair calls, and this
was one of them.
Boy, I've been reading too much Tom Robbins (:
By the way, I'll be taking a temporary leave of absence from this list come
Friday. I'll be heading up to the furthest and most tropical reaches of
Australia, Far North Queensland, for a writer's festival. So no one's
allowed to talk about anything interesting til I get back on the 21st,
okay? (:
P.S. If there's any 'fishers from Brisbane here I have a 9 hour layover -
anyone wanna go out and have a coffee???
Camille
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