Freudian/Lacanian Support for H/H (long)

[naama]

No: HPFGUIDX 7507

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Aberforth's Goat" <Aberforths_Goat at Y...> wrote:
> > I'm reminded of what Martin Gardner wrote in his preface to the
> > Annotated Alice (fabulous book ....
> 
> Fabulous quote, too! I'd like to track it down--could you give the title?

Glad you liked it. The title is "The Annotated Alice". The quote is from the preface.

 
> But, although I'm not big on Freud, I think freudians--and other movements
> that use an author- (rather than text- or reader-) centered hermeneutic
> (=interpretive strategy)--have a valid point: why *did* the author happen to
> choose one particular palatte of words instead of some other palatte?
> 
> Was it her conscious intent? (She wanted to get back at journalists, so she
> created Rita.) Was it coincidence? (She sees a fly on her desk and writes
> "flew into a rage.") Was it cultural-linguistic norms? (The hero is called
> Harry, rather than Hermione, because our culture sets the default gender
> value of young antagonists to male.) Was it a conscious but unexpressed
> drive? (She thinks fortune tellers are humbugs, so she makes Trelawney a
> nutcase.) Was it an unsconscious desire, drive or deficit? (She's troubled
> by her id, or "inner Harry"; hence she hooks up Hermione--her literary
> personification--with the safe Ron, yet leaves a certain ambiguity about
> Hermione's feelings.)
> 
> I'm not taking a stand for or against any of the examples above. (Well,
> except for Rita Skeeter, which Jo denies.) But all four approaches can be
> valid, if employed with a pinch of salt. We write the way we write because
> of the kind of people we are and the kind of circumstances we write under.
> Assuming psychoanalysis can tell us something about who we are (which is
> admittedly debatable, especially when applied to people we don't even know
> outside of their books), it has a place in lit. crit.
> 


I'm really looking forward to a psychlogical theory based on Chaos theory. Maybe then it 
will be established that on a very deep level there is randomality in our thoughts, 
decisions and actions. Then we will be more busy looking at the beauty of the patterns our 
minds create (akin to the beauty of the patterns nature creates), instead of obsessing about 
underdetermining causes.

Naama