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What is the oceanic?

What is the oceanic? ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 12 number 2 august 2007 s there such a thing as the oceanic? Can we just say (the) oceanic is? The oceanic is ... as movement, yet it does nothing, goes nowhere. It is being as a verb. The oceanic is to be. The oceanic is not to come. The oceanic is not the event of an arrival. It is the desire to be as only the desire to be. It is a desiring to live as only the desire to live. It is a desire for no thing other than being the desire that it is, a desire that wishes to go on desiring: to be. This wants to be left and allowed. So this essay can but be an interruption of the oceanic, a non-miraculous parting of the sea. As a psychological term of affect, ‘‘the oceanic’’ or ‘‘oceanic feeling’’ is often traced to caroline rooney the correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Romain Rolland, a correspondence that is made partially public in the opening pages of Freud’s Civilisation and Its Discontents. In being made WHAT IS THE public, the key question is whether or not OCEANIC? the oceanic can be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

What is the oceanic?

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What is the oceanic?

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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 12 number 2 august 2007 s there such a thing as the oceanic? Can we just say (the) oceanic is? The oceanic is ... as movement, yet it does nothing, goes nowhere. It is being as a verb. The oceanic is to be. The oceanic is not to come. The oceanic is not the event of an arrival. It is the desire to be as only the desire to be. It is a desiring to live as only the desire to live. It is a desire for no thing other than being the desire that...
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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 12 number 2 august 2007 s there such a thing as the oceanic? Can we just say (the) oceanic is? The oceanic is ... as movement, yet it does nothing, goes nowhere. It is being as a verb. The oceanic is to be. The oceanic is not to come. The oceanic is not the event of an arrival. It is the desire to be as only the desire to be. It is a desiring to live as only the desire to live. It is a desire for no thing other than being the desire that it is, a desire that wishes to go on desiring: to be. This wants to be left and allowed. So this essay can but be an interruption of the oceanic, a non-miraculous parting of the sea. As a psychological term of affect, ‘‘the oceanic’’ or ‘‘oceanic feeling’’ is often traced to caroline rooney the correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Romain Rolland, a correspondence that is made partially public in the opening pages of Freud’s Civilisation and Its Discontents. In being made WHAT IS THE public, the key question is whether or not OCEANIC? the oceanic can be

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Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: Aug 1, 2007

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