Chapter 23 Vronsky’s wound had been a dangerous one, though it did not touch the heart, and for several days he had lain between life and death. The first time he was able to speak, Varya, his brother’s wife, was alone in the room. "Varya," he said, looking sternly at her, "I shot myself by accident. And please never speak of it, and tell everyone so. Or else it’s too ridiculous." Without answering his words, Varya bent over him, and with a delighted smile gazed into his face. His eyes were clear, not feverish; but their expression was stern. "Thank God!" she said. "You’re not in pain?" "A little here." He pointed to his breast. "Then let me change your bandages." In silence, stiffening his broad jaws, he looked at her while she bandaged him up. When she had finished he said: "I’m not...
THE CHILDREN AND PSYCHOLOGY
Paul Goodman
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WHAT IS most significant, it seems to me, is the earnest attention
paid to the Children and Family as a subject, the desire of parents to
be Informed and thereby do their best, rather than following their
wit and impulse; or to say this another way, what is significant is the
importance assigned in our society to Psychology itself? for Psychology is still by and large the
family-psychology that Freud made it
discussing the problems of jealousy, infantile dependency authority, submissiveness and
rebelliousness, and sibling competition: and
problems of spite, moral prejudice and other reaction-formations
springing from instinctual deprivation. This interest in the Childre... (From : http://www.tao.ca/~freedom/goodman.html.)
I am asked for my thoughts about the content and style of
anti-war films, and how to make such a film.
First of all, such a film must at least not do positive harm by
predisposing its audience toward war. The images of senseless violence, horror,
and waste that are usually employed in the commercially successful “antiwar”
films do have a titillating effect and remain in the soul as excitants and
further incitements. Let me show how this works.
(1) In cinematic conditions of bright screen and dark theater,
lasting for many minutes and tending to fascination and hypnosis, images of
horror easily detach themselves from the kind of intellectual and ethical
framework in which they are usually presented, and they atta... (From : http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/goodman.htm.)
Mr. Mencken gives the
impression of an able mind so harried and irritated by the philistinism of
American life that it has not been able to attain its full power. These more
carefully worked-over critical essays are, on the whole, less interesting and
provocative than the irresponsible comment he gives us in his magazine. How is
it that so robust a hater of uplift and puritanism becomes so fanatical a
crusader himself? One is forced to call Mr. Mencken a moralist, for with him
appraisement has constantly to stop while he tilts against philistine critics
and outrageous puritans. In order to show how good a writer is, he must first
show how deplorably fatuous, malicious or ignorant are all those who dislike
him. Such a proof is und... (From : fair-use.org.)
The following text is Stirner's first publication, which previous collections of Stirner's writings do not contain.
Review of: Theodor Rohmer: German occupation in the present. Zurich and Winterthur: Publishing house of the literary Comptoirs 1841 in: The railroad. A support leaf for the formed world (Leipzig), 4th Jg., no. 77/78 (28./30.12.1841), S.307-308, 310-312
Max Stirner: "You only have the courage to be destructive"
How happy I was as a child to lie on green fields and look up into blue skies. The sweet smells of Spring would waft through the air as dreamed of my bright future. I dreamed of becoming a great man. I would throw fistfuls of gold out of my carriage and masses of poor and stunned people would worship m... (From : Anarchy Archives.)