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the other rb is right of course. i'm a little surprised that it required being said, but such is the nature of the topic i guess.
anyway, i wasn't heading in the direction of the main characters in "rope."
i was considering talking about freud in this context but decided against it earlier.
the link is obvious---"the three essays on sexuality" are interesting, the description of the process of differentiation of drives from a global kind of pleasure/pain dynamic and the accompanying , that of mapping....
there is a question of at what point the drives that freud talks about as being sexual become separated and mapped in such a way as to be functionally sexual in the sense an adult would understand the term.
then there is the question of the intertwining of fantasy and memory, which the story from isabelle allende raised, which (like it or not) psychoanalysis raised in spades as well.
then there is a more uncomfortable question of the extent to which the norms that de facto define away questions of childhood sexuality (as a consequence, if you take the norms as generating an image of children through what they prohibit) and the taboos that accumulate around their violation to some extent create the charge behind the act of pedophilia...because it seems to me that hysterical denial has the paradoxical effect of generating an attraction around what is prohibited in that way, because it is prohibited in that way.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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