I think my brain might be leaking...

[athersgeo]

I've started my university course.

I'm currently wading through a chapter of a book which details the various stages and processes you go through for studying the arts.

It's just devoted an entire paragraph to the Freudian implications of stricking a match...

*headdesk*

Comments

[jonathlee.livejournal.com]

... The Freudian implications. Of striking a match?

*brain leaking and he hasnt' even READ it*

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Yep.

And you really haven't missed much by not reading it. Trust me.

[(Anonymous)]

Trade ya, my work for yours? ;)

--Drew

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Having read your description of it, no. (Actually, most of the stuff I've been doing's been an improvement on the whole Freud thing; discussing war memorials and the various considerations that go into them. The next batch of work goes on to look at the poetry of various World War I poets, which is definitely more my speed - no Freudian implications in them!!!)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know about that.... I always though that there was something vaguely Freudian about McCrae's "In Flanders Fields..."

"To you with failing hands we throw/ the torch; be yours to hold it high...."

Or maybe that's just me.

--Drew

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*grins* I think that might just be you; on the other hand, I've spent several go-rounds doing lit-crit on this particular poem (I did it way back when for English lit and I'm now re-doing it for this course) so I've got a pretty darned defined idea of what everything symbolises - and I first did it before I understood the concept of Freud.

You know, you're going to have me wondering about that now...

*giggles*

[(Anonymous)]

And its made all the more distubring by the fact that, in the poem, it's supposed to be dead people talking....

--Drew

[cmar-wingnut.livejournal.com]

I collect matchbooks, does that make me a slut?

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

*grin* Pass :)