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Jung recounts his initial reading of Freud in 1900 and then their meeting in 1907... the two not only developed a professional but also a personal relationship and even analyzed one other's dreams... one of Jung's problems with Freud's approach was the latter's "disregard of the historical conditions of man" for Jung we are always products of our great historical past, in a macro sense...

U.C. Berkeley philosophy professor Dreyfus discusses the importance of Merleau-Ponty's renowned focus on the "body" to "grip" reality's "gestalt" for "skillful coping" ... for Merleau-Ponty it is the our physical body with its "skills" that allow us to "relate to things" and others via "intercorporeality" which is deemed "magical" ... the body is always "geared" toward the world...

U.C. Berkeley philosophy professor Dreyfus discusses the importance of Merleau-Ponty's renowned focus on the "body" to "grip" reality's "gestalt" for "skillful coping" ... for Merleau-Ponty it is the our physical body with its "skills" that allow us to "relate to things" and others via "intercorporeality" which is deemed "magical" ... the body is always "geared" toward the world...

Brazilian educator and critical theorist Freire discusses the connection between the impoverishment of local persons (a "negation of their being") and how this predicament moved him toward a this-worldly reading of Christianity, via Marx a form of liberation theology...

Faulkner was cited by the committee "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel" ... look for him at about the 6.45 mark ...

Footage of Mann in southern California where he lived during most of the 1940s... it was here that he wrote his last major novel, 'Doktor Faustus,' arguably, his most powerful and heart-felt work...

Kristeva remarks that poetic language is not only "feminine," but arises from the pre-Oedipal, narcissistic stage of psychic development; she deems it "musical" and relates it to the basic mother-child relationship... Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' and Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of 'Ulysses' bears witness, she feels, to this unique phenomenon...

An allegedly authentic wax-cylinder recording of Whitman reading from his poem "America" (found in 'Leaves of Grass,' Book XXXIV, 'Sands at Seventy,' 1888) "Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love..."

From a 1997 French documentary on Bataille; a dramatization from his 'Madame Edwarda' (1937), where the sacred and the profane merge with Edwarda, the prostitute, claiming that "I'm God" ("je suis Dieu")... The last part shows photos of a 1905 Mongolian torture victim, Fou-tchou-li who was subjected to "língchí ,"-slow-slicing-for killing his master, the prince of Inner Mongolia, Aohan Banner.....

Here, we learn of Sartre's 1960s commitment to Marxism, but also his later belief that "perpetual revolt" against the established order was the only feasible ethic that supported and promoted his existential notion of radical freedom... greatly influenced by the French student revolts of May, 1968, Sartre's politics became more aligned with revolutionary anarchism, which later came to alienate ...

Set to Cesar Franck's 'Sonata in A major for Piano and Violin' (1886) which might have been the source of 'the little phrase' that so moved Swann in regard to his love for Odette: 1- Sandro Botticelli, "The Trials of Moses," Sistine Chapel, Rome (1481-82): The Daughters of Jethro: '... Standing there beside him, her loosened hair flowing down her cheeks, bending one knee in a slightly balletic ...

Bataille discusses L&E on a May 21, 1958 French TV show, "Lectures Pour Tous" with Pierre Dumayet... this not all that well-known work is one of Bataille's best and offers unique, powerful and moving reactions to Emily Bronte, de Sade, Proust, Kafka, and others... the essay on Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights' is among the finest on this still intense, unapologetic novel of harrowingly dark romantic...

Here, Derrida describes the breakthrough experience underlying two of the essays in his most famous work, "Of Grammatology" (1967) - this text, which offers key deconstructive critiques of speech vs. writing, Rousseau/Levi-Strauss on 'Nature, Culture, Writing,' offered an "interpretive edge, a lever" that Derrida felt he did not actually create himself - he is thus "responsible" and "not respon...

4/6: By the 1950s Oxford's C.S. Lewis became the most popular spokesperson for Christianity in the English-speaking world... in 1956, Lewis married Joy Davidson Gresham, a Marxist, atheist, poet/writer... at the time of the marriage, it was known that Joy was suffering from bone cancer, though it later went into remission... however, in 1960 the cancer returned and Joy died... Lewis mourning re...

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