Long OT Re: Freudian/Lacanian

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7469

Hi Amanda and all--

> I had an enlightened English teacher my senior year of high school 
(one time
> he gave us all a copy of a list of books they weren't supposed to 
teach, and
> had us each pick one to read and report on!)  whose last assignment 
was that
> we write an essay on anything we wanted, provided it had something 
to do
> with something we'd done. I carpe diem'd and wrote "Great 
Expectations
> Unfulfilled, or Why English is as Dull as the Dickens," complaining 
about
> precisely this--that students are not free to experience the 
literature
> because the teachers are too pushy in interpreting for them, and 
adding way
> too much "out there" stuff in the bargain. I got an A-. I liked that
> teacher.

Is that teacher still living?  Sounds like a role model I'd like to 
have.

Unfortunately, I did like Dickens in a way.  Hated the more dense 
passages of his prose, but absolutely loved his characters.

--Ebony (who, again, only dusts off the lit theory when it serves her 
purposes... you can tell my level of dedication to H/H due to my 
suffering through Lacan, Rank et al. for weeks.)