[Sigmund Freud careens through a crowd of well-dressed Viennese socialites, puffs of fine white dust like a haze flow behind him] Sigmund Freud: “GOD THIS PARTY IS SO GREAT CAN I TELL YOU ABOUT JOKES THEY’RE GREAT THEY’RE A… THEY’RE A.. IT’S AN… EXERCISE IN ECONOMIC PSYCHICAL PROCESSES AS THEY RELATE… OH MY GOD I [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Notes on Psychoanalytic Criticism
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tetrameter, Trigonometry and Total Bullshit
Posted in Uncategorized on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In a recent jobtalk for my University’s open Early Modernism position (out of the barest sense of decency I possess, I’ll refrain from naming names) one of the candidates gave a lecture, based on a book she was writing, concerning the possible worlds inherent in poetry and mathematics in the Early Modern period (a misleading [...]
